Re: UFS and ext2

2000-04-28 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:37:34AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > I don't know quantitative comparison between FreeBSD FFS > > and Ext2. However, both FFS and ext2 have similar > > structures, so I guess both performance are nice... > > UFS is a lot s

Re: UFS and ext2

2000-04-28 Thread Larry McVoy
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:37:34AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > I don't know quantitative comparison between FreeBSD FFS > and Ext2. However, both FFS and ext2 have similar > structures, so I guess both performance are nice... UFS is a lot slower than ext2 because ext2 does async meta data updat

Re: UFS and ext2

2000-04-28 Thread GOTO Masanori
I don't know quantitative comparison between FreeBSD FFS and Ext2. However, both FFS and ext2 have similar structures, so I guess both performance are nice... Regards, -- GOTO Masanori From: warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: UFS and ext2 > I try to setup a file server using Linux ext2 or F

UFS and ext2

2000-04-28 Thread warren
Hi, I try to setup a file server using Linux ext2 or FreeBSD ufs. Which one has better performance? Where i can find more information about their features and comparison? Warren

Re: ext2 feature request

2000-04-28 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Andrew Clausen wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to have a gap between the super-block and the > start of group 0's metadata? This would be REALLY useful, for: Yes, but... [snip] > the first block on the old partition is now the 50.25th block > in the new one. Obvious

ext2 feature request

2000-04-28 Thread Andrew Clausen
Hi all, Is it possible to have a gap between the super-block and the start of group 0's metadata? This would be REALLY useful, for: * giving boot loaders a nice fixed place to store data. * allowing partition resizers to align blocks, when resizing the start of ext2 partitions. To illustrate: