[ILUG] Linux SMP on Xeons

[David Murphy]

Quoting <20000615100608.A49918 at enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie>
by Brian Scanlan <singer at redbrick.dcu.ie>:

> This was with Bonnie to test, using Solaris 7 and Linux 2.2 - I
> didn't know ext2 kciked bog standard ufs's ass that much. There were
> (and more are due in the upcoming update releases) improvements in
> UFS performance in Solaris 8 though.  These results were without
> write-caching.

What were you using to generate these results? You do realise that
ext2fs defaults to a fast-but-dangerous mode for writes?

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