Re: 2.3S2: unlink vs. truncate on Linux/ext2?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 01:43:19 +0200

Duane Wessels wrote:

> > It would be interesting to have polygraph runs of the two configurations
> > to see if there in "real life" is any difference for Squid.
>
> My Polygraph tests with unlink vs truncate showed a very slight edge
> for truncate.

Interesting, except that your tests was performed on FreeBSD, not Linux.
The Linux ext2 filesystem performance pattern is quite different than
that of BSD FFS..

/Henrik
Received on Mon Mar 27 2000 - 16:58:55 MST

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