[plug] Potato Upgrade

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Well, the first side-effect of a slink-->potato upgrade is my ftp daemon
> is gone.. Not a trace in the netstd package.. Oh well.. I'll install
> proftpd instead..
> I guess that's why they call it the unstable tree..
Indeed. I would still submit a bug-report, though, if there was no
information anywhere telling you this would happen, or if it didn't
preserve your old config for you.

> Also.. some speed tests showed that there is bugger all difference
> between read speeds on an ext2 partition and a defragmented fat32
> partition...
As it should be - in the reading-one-big-file on a defragged fs case, the
whole thing should be very tightly disk-bound. ext2 and other modern
filesystems gain when doing many fast operations (lookups, renames, mvs,
etc) or when the fat partition gets fragmented. (not a problem suffered
by modern filesystems)
You should also see file-system independent gains under Linux as compared
to Windows if you managed to use the buffers/cache/swap a lot in the
process.

-Greg