> 
> 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