Hello Newsgroup ! 
 
Is our Filesystem (FFS) slow ? 
 
I did some sort of benchmark with taking the time that is needed to unpack 
the current pkgsrc.tar.gz. 
 
This is the Command I used: 
date > date.txt && tar xvfz pkgsrc.tar.gz && date >> date.txt 
 
This are the Results (all i386): 
114 Seconds on a 1.6.1 ffs + softdeps on 120 GB ide Harddisk 
219 Seconds on a 2.99.10 ffs + softdeps on a 40 GB HDD 
185 Seconds on a 2.0E ffs with a 120 Raid 1 HDD 
30  Seconds on a SuSE Linux 8.2 with scsi 
30 Seconds on a SuSE Linux 8.1 with scsi 
 
I'm very intrested in your Benchmarks aswell! 
Please download current pkgsrc from  
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz 
or a closer Mirror 
and send me your Benchmark Results done with the same command line as 
shown above to zafer@gmx.org with a little note of what kind of system & 
hdd  is used. 
 
Thank you very much. 
Regards, Zafer.