Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:00:03PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This is essentially wrong on all the interesting filesystems. It's
> > equivalent on most of them, and a little slower to use one large file
> > on NTFS and HFS+.
> 
> Do you have  a reference on this?  I've just made the test  on an ext3
> filesystem, and reading  10000 files of 1 lines  was incredibly faster
> than 1 file of 10000 lines.

That's a fairly useless test. You're sampling buffer-cache performance
for sequential access, not filesystem performance for random access.

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