On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Youse wrote:
> One of the biggest reasons for the difference: FreeBSD, by default,
> performs _synchronous_ metadata updates, and Linux performs asynchronous
> metadata updates.
>
> It's definitely a bit slower, but the payoff is in reliability. I have
> seen more than one [production!] Linux machine completely trash its
> filesystems because the implementors decided that their "NT-killer" must
> have good performance at the expense of serious, production-quality
> reliability.
Read the post again -- they were using soft updates.
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Ben Rosengart
UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.
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