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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.kolumbus.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: 19 Mar 1997 13:48:42 GMT Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 40 Message-ID: <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5g9hjp$api@flea.best.net> <5gmb58$6jd$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gn3ig$83d@flea.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi NNTP-Posting-User: mickey Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37489 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6414 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29332 >:>Hm, last I heard, FreeBSD had serious troubles when running under heavy >:>loads on some Internet servers around here, totally crashing their machines. >:>I also doubt FreeBSD supports any sensible SMP or filesystems like XFS etc. >:>though I admit I haven't been following recent development in FreeBSD. i find that somewhat both tragic and hilarious comment. and i apologise my upcoming comments, i admit selecting my words slight loosely... anyone with some basic knowledge in conputer technology should be rather aware of that without focusing into how something is being developed even commenting that development is quite futile. it could easily be compared to a situation where someone familiar with 20s rocket science starts to comment things out. "last i heard we hadnt visited the moon and even simple trips to near space are impossible, i doubt it is ever possible to find out if there is water in moon. though i admit i havent been following recent history" seriously. what is the major difference between xfs and ufs? i am still under impression that on a news server environment xfs would perform more efficienty. yet i admit that the latest development on filesystems on freebsd have made some serious leaps. and the gap is probably narrow as it's been pointed out. how far from having working lfs we are, or does it work already? i think last time i asked about xfs i was told lfs "is getting there" but wasnt quite working... also, if someone could provide me some stats how many files/sec xfs can write to disk compared to ufs, since i believe that's one of the ways to compare those two, xfs were, last time i heard, able to overperform ufs. ofcourse, i am well aware that nowadays people run big news servers on freebsd. mickey