Inspired by the recent threads regarding disk performance, I thought I'd
do a bit of (informal) benchmarking.
I have two machines, an OpenBSD box and a gentoo box. Each has a SCSI
drive and an IDE drive. The two IDE drives are the same make and model.
All OpenBSD filesystems are FFS and all gen
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:48:09 -0800, Matt Garman muttered:
> I haven't studied the results too closely yet. I just thought I'd post
> them and maybe generate some interesting discussion. My first
> impression is that ext3 (apparently) eats up the processor, at least
> compared to FFS (which I thin
