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From: mday@park.uvsc.edu (Matt Day)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 20 Feb 1996 20:16:26 -0700
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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In article <4g5ivp$28m@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>4)	Sync makes no difference in user perception of speed
>	unless you're the type of user who lives to run bogus
>	benchmarks, and then claim they represent a single
>	figure-of-merit to use when picking your machine.

I disagree.  ``rm -r'' runs much more slowly on a file system that does
synchronous metadata updates, and that's just for starters.  In many
cases worth caring about, synchronous metadata updates have a
significant negative impact on "user perception of speed".  Do you
honestly think Ganger and Patt did all that soft updates research just
to optimize for bogus benchmarks?

Matt Day <mday@park.uvsc.edu>