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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
> 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.
in order to save space I gzip'ped output of my tests.
ungzipping ports tarball on FreeBSD took 28 min
on Linux --- about 2.5 times faster.
there's output of "time sh install.sh".
>
>
> David Scheidt
>
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