Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

[David Scheidt]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:

> > 
> > Read the post again -- they were using soft updates.
> 
> Why is that important?  Soft updates is still far better than an async
> filesystem.  Have you lost files in panics?  I haven't.
> 

Soft updates should get you most of the speed that async updates do.  I have
lost cylinder groups in panics on systems with soft-updates.  (I was using a
very buggy kernel module, so things were *hosed*).  The original poster
hasn't really provided enough information to know what is going on, and what
the performance problem is.


David Scheidt



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