Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:12:35 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Be File System |
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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Angus Mackay wrote:
[snip] > > I really think that 31bit files are quite limiting(ext2).
This is not a ext2 limitation. This a is VFS issue. ext2 supports large files.
> I also did some benchmarking of ext2 vs fat16 vs NTFS vs BFS for large file > I/O (on a 6Gb ultra IDE drive). > - NTFS (under NT) did terribly at 5 Mb/s (for a > 4G file), I don't know how to > do raw I/O under NT so I can't say what the overhead is. > - ext2 did quite well at 7Mb/s but for raw I/O it gets 12Mb/s so there is some > serious loss of performance (but Linux's performance is so good it isn't > that noticeable) > - fat16 sucked > - the BFS did amazingly well (under the BeOS). it got 9Mb/s (for a > 4Gb file) > and the raw I/O speed for that drive under the BeOS was 9Mb/s.
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