out of curiosity, which FFS were they studying?
On Feb 5, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Jean-Francois wrote: > 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.
