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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!stren From: stren@netcom.com (Sam Trenholme) Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Message-ID: <strenDM7Gr4.Cn2@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <311250C2.2781E494@public.uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 15:09:04 GMT Lines: 37 Sender: stren@netcom21.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13182 comp.os.linux.development.system:16530 [Since we are comparing Linux and FreeBSD, in hopefully a constructive way, I have posted this to both a Linux and a FreeBSD newsgroup] >On http://plastique.stanford.edu/ you'll find an extensive >work comparing Linux(1.2.8), FreeBSD 2.05, and Solaris 2.4. > >The jist is: >- Linux has best FileSystem-Performance (because it's doing FS-Updates > asychronously) Hmmm.... I remeber a long thread where people were arguing this-- and I get the sense that FFS was faster than Ext2Fs. This is actually an issue I am thinking about as I am waiting for a "cp -a /usr/spool/news /zip_drive" to finish[1], and have been thinking about becuase some scripts I cooked up to thread a www archive of a couple of newsgroups takes an hour to make an index with about 1700 articles. (shameless plug) the database is pointed to from http://ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~set/rocky.news.html (end shameless plug). [1] Obviously, the Zip drive is not the fastage storage medium out there, and will be slow despite the underlying filesystem. Other thoughts: 1) I like the idea of LFS, becuase it looks like it should survive hard crashes and power cycles happening without a proper shutdown/unmount sequence-- better. I hear the commerical filesystem VeritasFS is really good at this. 2) I would love to see a Unix filesystem with dynamiclly allocated inodes. Nothing more fun than "no space on device" errors, even though I have 25 megs left, because I just ran out of inodes. :-) -- Sam Trenholme - stren@netcom.com - http://ucsee/eecs/berkeley/edu/~set - LINUX!