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From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [lm@bitmover.com: Linux performance vs IRIX performance]
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:34:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199807181734.KAA08309@bitmover.com> (raw)

: > doesn't have, etc, etc.  None the less, it is likely that Linux on the same
: > hardware would be about 3 times faster than IRIX.  
: 
: Larry did not say what kind of FS he used on the Irix box (XFS or EFS), but
: for me it looks like a typical sync metadata/async metadata comparison.

It was XFS.  The other way to be sure, I think, is that if it was a meta
update problem only, then the system times shouldn't be dramatically different.
Disk I/O is not that expensive.

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