Pete French writes:
> All very interesting, but a small point has been forgotten
> hasnt it ? The way I read this thread is that until recentlly
> write-caching was enabled by default and has now been disabled (hence
> the original obseravtion of disc performance dropping).
>
> I havent noticed that FreeBSD has a bad reputation for loss of data
> in the event of am power outage, and my own experience backs this up.
> As so many people appear to have been running it this way by default until
> now you might have though that if it were a serious problem in reality then
> people would have noticed by now ?
Well, I am an ex-Linux user who got fed up with Linux trashing my disk 3
times one week. Each time (kernel panics) the damage was bad enough fsck
(e2fsck?) deleted a lot of critical files making a wipe/reinstall the
fastest way back to a running system. This was shortly after the release
of FreeBSD 2.0.0. Remember it well because that is when I became a
FreeBSD user. Hmm, probably 6 years ago this month.
Have watched Linux from "outside" since then. Noticed I was not the
only one losing data. From what I've seen the Linux solution was not to
to fix a faulty design but to hack it until it doesn't lose as much.
Linux was/is very proud of their ext2fs speed. Clearly at the expense of
reliability. Oddly enough that machine got 600k Bytes/sec thruput on
Linux, but 900k Bytes/sec on FreeBSD 2.0.0-RELEASE. 240 MB Western
Digital IDE drive.
IMO the most reliable settings are the correct thing to do in spite of
simpleminded magazine authors who will "do a shootout" of Linux vs.
FreeBSD using only the stock settings.
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