On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, dima wrote:
I think you're quite OK with dd. I do believe you'll get a comparable results for cp setting
"noatime" option in mount(8)s. As you were told, the default mount mode is noasync which
is "synchronous metadata + asynchronous data". But FreeBSD still updates metadat
> The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes
> and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups
> around here and I saw something interesting.
>
> On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150
> ports, two SATA 300 drives att
Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 04:38 AM 3/2/2007, O. Hartmann wrote:
>> The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD
>> boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux
>> setups around here and I saw something interesting.
>>
>> On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
In FreeBSD we have 3 types, not 2. We have "sync", "noasync" (default)
and "async".
Are you sure? 2 independent flags give 4 states. I think the flags
are not completely independent, but sync doesn't cancel async in all
cases (partly because of
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, O. Hartmann wrote:
On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150 ports,
two SATA 300 drives attached) I copied big files (~ 5GB) from one drive to
another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the
copy process via 'systat -vms
