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Subject: Re: [9fans] kfs performance
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Date: Wed,  3 Mar 2004 09:48:56 +0000
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freebsd is also probably running ufs with soft updates turned on

"For metadata intensive benchmarks this improves performance by more than a factor of two when compared to the conventional syncronous write approach"

see 

hget http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/CSE-TR-254-95.ps | page 


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