[tex-live] Re: Re: [tug-board] Any news of DVDs ?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Fri Feb 3 00:56:40 CET 2006
>>>>> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Wagner <wagner at cesnet.cz> writes:
> It depends on filesystem used. Some time ago I did a test on a
> computer with dual boot OS/2 Warp 4 + GNU Debian Linux, i.e. the
> same processor, the amount of RAM, physically the same HD and CD
> drive. I had to copy the whole CD to HD. In Linux I used cp
> --recursive, FS was EXT3, in OS/2 I used copy /s, FS was HPFS. In
> OS/2 copying took approx. 10 times longer!
The file system is iso9660 in both cases.
I can't imagine that HPFS is so much worse than ext3. It might be
worse, but certainly not 10 times worse.
It is more likely that Linux supports a larger cache than OS/2.
Everything has to be read from the CD *once* and can then be retrieved
from memory (RAM) many times under Linux. Does OS/2 use all the
unused memory for this purpose?
Regards,
Reinhard
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