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- From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Keywords: extfs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.202622.3710@lucrece.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 20:26:22 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
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- Originator: jon@lucrece.robots
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- In article <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu> kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:
- >
- > So does anyone have a summary of how it's going? What's your suggestion?
- >On a related topic, if I decide to go all 213 megs Linux, I'll still have some
- >space left over on my other hard drive (the 55 megs I'm using now). Would you
- >suggest going extfs with that too, or keeping some as the old style? Reasons?
- >
- > Thanks heaps.
-
- Since patch 0.98-pl6 (I think) the extfs has been pretty solid. I punish it
- pretty hard and my problems stoped with the extfs10.1 patch. The downside is
- the performance. I have the XS3 and XFree86 source tree in the same extfs,
- and after a few compiles I get about 50kb per second read/write performance
- It noticably kills performance, and the first sync after linking the X server
- can go on for minutes...
-
- BTW I have dosfs and minix fss on the same disk and they get about 600kb/s
- and 500kb/s reliably but I guess a dosfs isn't an option :-)
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- Jon <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
- "I got in today just as the sun was crashing"
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