| From: | Kisa 2o0o |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 20:41:47 |
| Subject: | Re: SFS + 3.5 |
Hello !
>> This test gave WRONG results! Upon this test deleting file
>> on FFS is faster (!!!) then on SFS ?! Try to create a very
>> huge file (ISO image is ok) and then delete it! IT take about
>> 2-3 mins on FFS! and only few seconds on SFS !!!
>I don't have SFS on any partitions yet, but I tested deletion of an ISO
>image, 590 Megs in size, in FFS.
>It took less than 2 seconds on an A2000.
>This has a SCSI drive connected to an A2091 with a Guru ROM, and the
>partition is formatted with 8k blocks. (The GURU ROM makes a big
>difference).
>So if faster deleting is a reason for installing SFS, I might not
>bother!
Heh, well , I forgot about scsi users (I tested on IDE maybe thats why
it takes so long on FFS to delete a large file). But looks like people
are too much in speed compares, but its not the only feature of new
filesystems - there is another hard limit on our beloved FFS - length of
filenames! Yes, 31 symbols was good for previous years, now we live in the
world with a very long file names - this is one of the most serious resons
why I was looking for new filesystem, because speed IMHO is the hardware
question even some filesystems gives some solution to prived faster access.
PFS nadling long filenames very well, but it stole about 10% of partition
size for its own needs thats the point why it lose battle against SFS.
I used PFS for a long time till now after all I lose about 200 megz on all my
PFS partitions on 6 Gb drive. =(
Regards,
Kisa