[tech] A question of File System

[Adrian Chadd]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002, David Luyer wrote:
> 
> > ext2/ext3's certainly not "slow". Directory operations are slow on
> > large directories. ext3 in full-data-journalling mode is slow at
> > writes, not that you'd typically run it that way. Both cream Solaris
> > UFS and Veritas VxFS, generally speaking.
> 
> Old crappy Linux box.  CVS update or diff takes 2.6 seconds.
> 
> Same repository.  Sun box approx twice the specs of said Linux box
> (ie. still rather old but at least with some decent hardware redundancy
> in it).  Same CVS operations take approx 29 seconds.

I bet that you had stuff mounted sync (default under solaris, right?)




Adrian