From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EL4cf-0002ZI-OJ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:03:17 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EL4cb-0002VW-Nq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:03:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EL4cT-0002SL-TZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:03:09 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EL4cT-0002Jf-1L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:03:05 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EL4SC-0005Cl-Dn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:52:28 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FA48CD9 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:52:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04759-02 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:52:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19CB081E9 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:52:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD43C048 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:52:08 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <874q861b0z.fsf@student.han.nl> <200509290112.15925.okuji@enbug.org> <87mzlv1zjh.fsf@student.han.nl> <200509292143.49559.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:52:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200509292143.49559.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:43:49 +0200") Message-ID: <8764sj1wk7.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: AFFS support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:03:14 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > On Thursday 29 September 2005 08:47 pm, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Could you please describe the slowness and where it occurs and where >> it does not? Perhaps it is something I could improve. > > I'm not sure if this is specific to XFS, but grub-emu with a real disk is very > slow. For example, when I use "ls /etc", I can see that each filename is > printed, one by one. It's like the disk cache is not used at all. It is not that slow here. But I have experienced disk slowness myself. I think I wrote to this list about it a while ago. One example is using cmp for example to compare big files. -- Marco