Re: technical comparison

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Jason Andresen wrote:
> 
> Results:
> ufs+softupdates is a little slower than ext2fs+wc for low numbers of
> files, but scales better.  I wish I had a Reiserfs partition to
> test with.

Ext2fs is a non-contender.

Note, though, that there is some very recent perfomance improvement on
very large directories known as dirpref (what changed, actually, was
dirpref's algorithm). This is NOT present on 4.3-RELEASE, though it
_might_ have since been committed to stable.

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