Hello, I just read some extracts of a paper, study from Margo Seltzer & Keith A. Smith from Harvard university, a comparison of LFS & FFS.
It looks like the creation of files in FFS is rather long such as creation of many small files is somewhat not very fast compared to certain other FS. As well, the fragmentation is less optimized on disks handling lots of changes than some other FS. Basic questions from my side, is FFS-2 better than FFS in the sense of dealing with creation of many small files, and is fragmentation less than with FFS ? Are other file systems with some improvement of performance compared to FFS available for OpenBSD ? In other words, I'm not critisizing at all a FFS file system which I do use successfully for few years now, what about optimizing a server by mounting some disks with different types of file systems, is this available at all ? Yes, I read FAQ and I seem to understand that all of it is simply not convenient if possible at all. But the question is worth to me in the sense, there are probably lot of interesting things about file systems use in OpenBSD not yet documented. Thanks, Regard J.-F.
