[afnog] Read/Write Comparison

Sunday Adekunle Folayan sfolayan at skannet.com.ng
Thu Aug 24 09:31:59 SAST 2006


Tony Kinyua wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the risk of starting a flame war I would like to request the list's opinion 
> on how UFS (read freeBSD default) compares to other journalled file systems 
> like XFS, Reiserfs or ext3 (read Linux default) when it comes to multiple 
> heavy read/write operations on a fairly large raided partition >100GB at the 
> rate of thousands per second. What am looking at is
> 1. Is UFS consistent enough in its journalizing to reduce the risk of file 
> system errors?
> 2. Why do a majority of large email services prefer Linux for core email 
> services?
>
> TK
>   
Tony T. .... if you truly do not want to troll and start a war, then 
...Google is your friend, Cultivate the friendship :-)

Starting with ... "ufs xfs reiser  Linux FreeBSD" I got 
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/comparison-linux-vs-freebsd-bsd-oses.html

Cheers.

SF.



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