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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 4 Jun 1994 01:56:24 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2sofvm$jnj@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <2seo29$5c5@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <FRwaNc2w165w@oasys.pc.my> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <FRwaNc2w165w@oasys.pc.my>, Othman Ahmad <othman@oasys.pc.my> wrote: >card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) writes: >The unique thing about BSD FFS(Fast File System) is the presense of 2 block >sizes. A small chunk size but large block sizes. 16K block size with chunk >size of 1 K is the default. Nope, the default is the very classical 8 KB / 1KB. Strangely, I saw many systems with default value of 4 KB / 512B which is less efficient in term of speed. >Has this been implemented under ext2fs? From benchmark tests, it is very >clear that linux FS a year ago still has not implemented it. ASAIK Remy has done it or plan to add fragments to ext2fs (I am almost sure he did it). -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.0(Current) CURRENT_092#0 i386