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From: Nick Owens <mischief@offblast.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:54:15 -0800
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Subject: Re: [9front] vmx(1) OpenBSD: SSD vs sparse file
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could be due to the in-memory block cache that hjfs has? if a program
(like vmx) talks to devsd directly (/dev/sdE0/openbsd or whatever)
there's no cache.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 7:20 PM <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
>
> Subjective observation:
>
> On my CORE i7 ThinkPad X250, vmx(1) seems to run OpenBSD/amd64 6.3
> appreciably faster when OpenBSD is installed in a sparse file stored
> on the 9front hjfs file system (which is itself running on an SSD)
> than when OpenBSD is installed on its own SSD and vmx(1) is accessing
> its hard drive directly via the -d flag.
>
> sl