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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1268 comp.os.linux:56413 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd Message-ID: <g89r4222.750856871@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) 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 Lines: 23 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 ! ;-) ;-) -- ===========================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za================================ Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, | ____ _ o /\ Computer Science Department, | ___ _-\_<, /\/\/\ Rhodes University, RSA. | (*)/'(*) /\/\/\/\/\