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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
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Date: 18 Feb 1996 20:51:47 -0800
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In article <4g5cl6$q6k@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de>,
Stefan Esser <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote:
[a collection of statistics comparing Linux ext2fs to BSD ffs]
I may have missed something, but aren't you leaving out the
statistics showing the performance of ext2fs on BSD vs ffs on BSD?
Comparing ext2fs behavior on Linux to ffs behavior on BSD is meaningless
unless you also factor in the speed of the buffer cache. It's like the
comparisons of native NCR810 drivers on freeBSD vs Linux; they make
wonderful propaganda, if you're only preaching to the converted; the
unconverted, on the other hand, will look at comparisons of the Linux
port of the BSD NCR810 driver vs the native Linux driver and then
disregard every comparison coming from the BSD camp, never mind if they
are real or mind candy.
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