Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

[Don]

There is actually a discussion beginning on freebsd-fs about the
possibilty to starting a journaled file system project. Perhaps the speed
issues (as well as the ACL's issues) could be discussed there?

-don

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote:

> 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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