Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > So add an option to sysinstall called:
> >
> >       "Fast and at least as reliable as Linux"
> 
> I doubt FreeBSD would need to enable write caching in order
> to be as fast as Linux (which doesn't have write caching
> enabled in any distribution I'm aware of).  ;))

AFAIK, ata write caching is enabled by default by the hardware
manufacturers. This was not the case originally, but benchmarks spoke
louder.

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