Subject: Re: Apple UFS in production?
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/11/2007 14:33:33
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:28:31PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> I'm curious whether anyone is using systems with their primary NetBSD 
> filesystems on Apple UFS? I tried setting up a system, but it seemed very 
> slow when I was cvs'ing src and pkgsrc, plus it eventually stopped 
> responding. Due to the way the monitor was connected, I didn't get to see 
> why, but I'm wondering if Apple UFS isn't the best filesystem to use.

I used it a couple of years ago, but haven't used it recently.  I also
had some instability, but I don't think it was UFS-related.  It was
slow, but (at the time, anyway) much faster under NetBSD (compared to
OS X -- OS X really seems to prefer HFS+).

-allen

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