Re:troll? (Score 2)

What many Linux users forget (or don't know) is that FreeBSD (and the other BSD's) default to synchronous writes with drive write caching turned off. This is done to prevent losing large chunks of data in the event of a sudden system shutdown. Linux defaults to asynchronous writes with write caching turned on. The other piece of information missing from the post is that /usr/ports on FreeBSD is 110MB with over 17,000 directories and over 62,000 files. If you plan on removing that many directories and files on a regular basis (not common on most servers) then just turn on asynchronous writes.