On Thursday 06 November 2003 07:08 am, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/05/1536226&mode=thread&tid=122
>&tid=185&tid=190&threshold=-1:
>
>
>   `Research conducted at MIT [mit.edu] found BSD's filesystem
> implementation to be "very poorly performing." [1]   Even BSD's acclaimed
> TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study. [2]'
>
> [1] http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
>
> [2]
> http://cs-tr.cs.rice.edu/Dienst/Repository/2.0/Body/ncstrl.rice_cs/TR99-335
>/postscript

Both of these papers are very old and have no bearing on reality any more.  
Bringing them up now is nothing short of FUD.