Apple UFS in production?

Hello, all,

I'm curious whether anyone is using systems with their
primary NetBSD 
filesystems on Apple UFS? I tried setting up a system, but
it seemed very 
slow when I was cvs'ing src and pkgsrc, plus it eventually
stopped 
responding. Due to the way the monitor was connected, I
didn't get to see 
why, but I'm wondering if Apple UFS isn't the best
filesystem to use.

John

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:28:31PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> I'm curious whether anyone is using systems with their
primary NetBSD 
> filesystems on Apple UFS? I tried setting up a system,
but it seemed very 
> slow when I was cvs'ing src and pkgsrc, plus it
eventually stopped 
> responding. Due to the way the monitor was connected, I
didn't get to see 
> why, but I'm wondering if Apple UFS isn't the best
filesystem to use.

I used it a couple of years ago, but haven't used it
recently.  I also
had some instability, but I don't think it was UFS-related. 
It was
slow, but (at the time, anyway) much faster under NetBSD
(compared to
OS X -- OS X really seems to prefer HFS+).

-allen

-- 
Allen Briggs  |  http://www.ninthw
onder.com/~briggs/  |  briggsninthwonder.com

On Jul 11, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Allen Briggs wrote:

> I used it a couple of years ago, but haven't used it
recently.  I also
> had some instability, but I don't think it was
UFS-related.  It was
> slow, but (at the time, anyway) much faster under
NetBSD (compared to
> OS X -- OS X really seems to prefer HFS+).

I don't use UFS on any of my Macs at all anymore.  And with
the  
version of Leopard that was made available at WWDC07, you
can't create  
UFS volumes with Disk Utility anymore (you can still do it
with the  
diskutil command line tool, however).

-- thorpej

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Hello,

On Jul 11, 2007, at 14:28, John Klos wrote:

> Hello, all,
>
> I'm curious whether anyone is using systems with their
primary NetBSD 
> filesystems on Apple UFS? I tried setting up a system,
but it seemed 
> very slow when I was cvs'ing src and pkgsrc, plus it
eventually 
> stopped responding. Due to the way the monitor was
connected, I didn't 
> get to see why, but I'm wondering if Apple UFS isn't
the best 
> filesystem to use.

Works fine on my iBook G4 in -current.

have fun
Michael
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Michael Lorenz <macallannetbsd.org> writes:

>> I'm curious whether anyone is using systems with
their primary NetBSD 
>> filesystems on Apple UFS? I tried setting up a
system, but it seemed 
>
> Works fine on my iBook G4 in -current.

Ditto. Has always worked fine on my iBook G3 since dbj added
support
for it.

The only (non-NetBSD related) problem is that Microsoft
Office for
OS X will refuse to work if your ~/Library (I think) folder
is on a
UFS partition, so I have to use a HFS+ home partition with a
forest of
symlinks to my otherwise shared UFS home partition.
(Not that I boot my G3 into OS X that often however, but it
does work)

 Aymeric