Re: xfs vs. jfs results: why?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 13:48 21-1-2003 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:

>Ok, so it also depends on what you're doing. Perhaps other people need a
>lot of read speed for their apps. But, as a rule of thumb: reading is
>easy, writing is difficult.

On another note, reading you can cache with large amounts of ram. Writing 
you can not.

Writing multiple times makes disk IO everytime.
Reading multiple times makes disk IO once (if you have enough ram)

Cheers

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