I already have softdep in there. May be you are write. Our source repos has a
lot of directories and it involves a big directory walk. A lot of files are
created in the process, including ofcourse the obj files.

I am using ext2fs on linux. Does that mean ext2fs is much better than ffs??

Bharani.
wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:

> >
> > Pardon me. I am fairly new to NetBSD. But I have noticed that the file
> > system performace for NetBSD is very poor when compared to Linux. I have
> > out source repository, I used to compile on Linux. Where it takes 5
> > minutes to compile the source code on my linux box, it takes 10 minutes
> > on the netbsd box. I am using the GENERIC kernel. I don't know if there
>
> add "softdep" option to fstab after rw flag
>
> but still it WILL be slower when creating lots of small files in many
> different directories. in other cases it's little faster - unless you used
> ext2 in linux