From: Howlin' Bob (gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU)
Date: 08/11/93


From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob)
Subject: Re: What's the FASTEST FS?
Date: 11 Aug 1993 16:58:47 GMT

In <CBLLr1.oDr@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) writes:

>Ed Carp (erc@apple.com) wrote:
>: What's the FASTEST FS? I know that ext is much slower than ext2, but is minix,
>: xiafs, or ext2 the fastest?

>Why, 386BSD's. (Berkeley FFS.)

Well, this isn't really a useful answer (not that there is one). He
wanted to know about the filesystems available under Linux. If you
don't look at *that* particular, then you're probably wrong, too.
I'm sure the 4.4BSD FFS is better that 386BSD's older implementation,
as is the log-stuctured file system in many cases.

And do you have numbers comparing xiafs/ext2/FFS on the same hardware
with comparable aging/fragmentation? I would indeed like to see them.

Robert

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