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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!katiska.clinet.fi!isil.lloke.dna.fi!rjs From: rjs@spider.compart.fi (Riku Saikkonen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:02:14 GMT Organization: I laureloke Lines: 33 Message-ID: <DMD8rr.oIB@isil.lloke.dna.fi> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <311250C2.2781E494@public.uni-hamburg.de> <strenDM7Gr4.Cn2@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: isil.lloke.dna.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13842 comp.os.linux.development.system:17414 Sam Trenholme (stren@netcom.com) wrote: >[Since we are comparing Linux and FreeBSD, in hopefully a constructive way, > I have posted this to both a Linux and a FreeBSD newsgroup] I hope this doesn't turn into the regular flame war... >get the sense that FFS was faster than Ext2Fs. ... >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. Hmm? An article statistic program of mine took about 7 minutes to stat about 3400 articles (it reads them all straight through once, directly from the news spool, collects some statistics to memory, and lastly writes a summary to a file on disk). There wasn't much else running at the same time, and this machine is a 486-50 with 8 Mb RAM, ISA bus, and and oldish IDE drive (no acceleration features besides Linux's default multiple-sector mode enabled, I'm lazy :)). So it might be more the program you're using (unless you use enough memory to swap the thing out). Mine is a single C program of about 800 lines... * * * There's one thing I've been wondering about... From what I've seen, FreeBSD seems to default to fscking the drive every night, while Linux defaults to every 15th (? something like that) reboot. However, in my two years of running Linux, I've never found a filesystem error except for the few times when I rebooted non-cleanly. Is the FreeBSD filesystem more prone to errors or are the distribution-makers just more paranoid? -- -=- Rjs -=- rjs@spider.compart.fi - http://isil.lloke.dna.fi/rjs/