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SVR4 filesystem? s5 ufs

SVR4 filesystem? s5 ufs

Post by John LoSec » Tue, 05 Nov 1996 04:00:00



I have added an IDE disk to my system and put linux on it.
Up until now the sytem has been running a SCSI based SVR4.  I have 2 SVR4
scsi disks.

After rebuilding the kernel with system V filesystem support I get an error
indicating that I have an unsupported file system when mounting the sysv
disks.  Fdisk indicates that the partions are labeled as "GNU_HURD".
I have also added ufs (readonly) support.

The disks have a perfectly good SVR4 filesystem which has functioned under
unix for years.  SVR4 supports both s5 and ufs, which they call the
Berkeley Fast File System.  I believe these disks were configured with
ufs.

Does linux support this ufs?  Do I need to reconfigure the partiton table
with fdisk to satisfy linux?  Would this reconfiguration confuse SVR4?

Thanks for any advice.
--
John M. LoSecco                 Phone:(219)631-6044          Fax:(219)631-5952
Physics Department              HEPnet/SPAN: UNDHEP::LOSECCO or 47344::LOSECCO

Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA

 
 
 
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1. Performance of s5 vs. ufs filesystems

We are currently weighing up the pros and cons involved in
choosing file system types (s5 or ufs) for user's home directories on a
System V R4 machine. One of the considerations is the relative
performance of s5 and ufs filesystems.

Now, considering tha the ufs filesystem is more complex, does this
therefore mean that there would be a performance penalty when
doing IO? If so, does anyone have any hard figures to indicate
what the performance difference is.

I have run a couple of simple benchmarks which seem to indicate
some loss in performance for ufs file systems, but second, third
and more opinions are invited.

--
Mathew Lim, Unix Systems Programmer, ANU Supercomputer Facility,        
Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra City, ACT, Australia 2601.


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