Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 09 May 2001 07:30:04 -0700 | | From | Hans Reiser <> | | Subject | Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 |
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Steve Lord wrote:
> > > > XFS is very fast most of the time (deleting a file is sooooo slow its like us > > ing > > old BSD systems). Im not familiar enough with its behaviour under Linux yet. > > Hmm, I just removed 2.2 Gbytes of data in 30000 files in 37 seconds (14.4 > seconds system time), not tooo slow. And that is on a pretty vanilla 2 cpu > linux box with a not very exciting scsi drive. > > > > > What you might want to do is to make a partition for 'mystery journalling fs' > > and benchmark a bit. > > > > Alan > > > > I agree with Alan here, the only sure fire way to find out which filesystem > will work best for your application is to try it out. I have found reiserfs > to be very fast in some tests, especially those operating on lots of small > files, but contrary to some peoples, belief XFS is good for a lot more than > just messing with Gbyte long data files. > > Steve Lord > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
XFS used to have the performance problems that Alan described but fixed them in the linux port, yes?
Hans
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