Micha³ Pasternak wrote:

> You'd better tell this to David and his Linux vs NetBSD trolling.

Whatever.. this is a netbsd mailing list, after all.
Apart from that, I've never seen a great difference in raw disk 
performance between NetBSD, FreeBSD and Gnu/Linux, although most of the 
few tests I have made in that issue have been on SCSI disks, not IDE disks.
Besides, I'd happily accept lower disk performance if that means a 
smaller risk of data loss.  That, for example, involves disabling of 
on-disk write-back caches which IIRC many IDE disks enable by default 
(or am I mistaken here?)

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