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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <2CB12A8D.17397@news.service.uci.edu> <MYCROFT.93Oct6054959@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <29klpf$8ae@kralizec.zeta.org.au> <HSU.93Oct15200852@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> <1993Oct16.134943.12301@kf8nh.wariat.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 11:21:11 GMT
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In <1993Oct16.134943.12301@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

>In article <HSU.93Oct15200852@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) writes:
>>In article <29klpf$8ae@kralizec.zeta.org.au> bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
>>   >for this and therefore risks serious file system corruption should the
>>...
>>   A measly 10 to 20 times faster.  This is one thing makes Linux "feel"
>>
>>Personally, I would prefer that there would be per-filesystem option to set
>>whether you wish file system structure updates done synchronously.

>Stephen Tweedie said he was working on that for the next ext2 release.  For
>the other filesystems it's up to the maintainers.

>Of course, it is contrariwise arguable that the OS isn't *supposed* to
>crash... :-) :-)
Thankyou for volunteering to buy me a UPS ! ;-) ;-)

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