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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
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Date: 5 Dec 1995 18:25:15 GMT
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John S. Dyson, in <4a11rt$1k2@dyson.iquest.net>:
[...]
>When FreeBSD V2.2 stabilizes, try mounting the UFS filesystem async, you'll
>get both the faster sequential read/write perf of UFS, and the async
>meta-data updates of Linux.
I've heard people speculating that this deficiency in Linux might be
partly due to the lack of native readv/writev in the kernel; well, if
so, we should know fairly soon as it was recently fixed. No hard data
is in yet on what the effects are, though.
--
" ... got to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness
i now know the depths i reach are limitless... "
-- nin