Re: Big 7.1 open items

> JanWieck(at)t-online(dot)de (Jan Wieck) writes:
> > Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> >> Those who live in HP houses should not throw stones :))
>
> > Huh? Up to HPUX-9 they used to have BSD-FFS - even if it was
> > a 4.2 BSD one - no?
>
> Yeah, the standard HPUX filesystem is still BSD ... and it still runs
> rings around Linux extfs2 in my experience. (I've been informed that
> Linux has better filesystems than extfs2, but that seems to be what
> the average Linux user is running.) I have a realtime data collection
> program that usually wants to write several thousand small files during
> shutdown. The shutdown typically takes about 3 minutes on an HP 715/75,
> upwards of 10 minutes on a Linux box with nominally-faster hardware.
>
> BTW, HP is trying to sell people on using a new journaling filesystem
> that they claim outperforms BSD, but my few experiments with it
> haven't encouraged me to pursue it.

You should really try the BSD4.4 FFS with soft updates. It re-orders
disk flushes to greatly improve performance. It really is great.

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