From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6f146d318977fd8d26be259f374aef78@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:12:41 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep) In-Reply-To: <3bbf5f5085c5b529f90850833a4371a5@davidashen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 792754e4-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>With fossil, it has been much faster. i would expect fossil to be faster; i was just surprised that kfs was unusably slow. kfs does write all metadata through to disk when running as a localfs (that can be switched off in the code), although it does buffer data writes. fossil doesn't, as you observed much earlier. clearly that makes an enormous difference on CF (now at least). it could be too that i wasn't expecting much speed from it at the time i did it.