FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued
Discussion
Matthias Buelow
mkb at incubus.de
Tue Jan 25 08:55:22 PST 2005
Petri Helenius wrote:
> Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount
> options? Async comes to mind first.
a) ext3 and xfs are logging filesystems, so the problem with
asynchronous metadata updates possibly corrupting the filesystem on a
crash doesn't arise.
b) asynchronous metadata updates wouldn't have any performance benefit
on a dd if=/dev/zero of=tstfile.
c) please cut down your quotes, and write your answers below or between
the quoted text, instead of the outlook text-above-fullquote style. thanks.
mkb.
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