Re: Good, recent FS comparison?

["James Northrup" <jim@grrrrr.gotdns.com>]

late reply... but ...

this is a benchmark I performed for grins sometime about February using two 
PATA udma5 volumes as software raid0.

http://kiwi.io-informatics.com/~jnorthrup/filesystem%20benchresults.xls


the uname -a isn't anywhere to be found but it was circa 2.6.8

the script is rpesumably still useful, for an experienced data groomer.

http://kiwi.io-informatics.com/~jnorthrup/fsbench

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler" <pml@dtbb.net>
To: "Al Boldi" <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>; "Linux RAID Mailing List" 
<linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>; <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: Good, recent FS comparison?


>
> Al Boldi wrote:
>
>>Tyler wrote:
>>
>>>Ewan Grantham wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've just setup a nice, 6-disk, USB-2 300 Gig/disk array, and was
>>>>prepared to follow my normal pattern of installing ext3 as the
>>>>filesystem. However, I saw the interview with Hans Reiser about
>>>>ReiserFS4, and am now wondering if reiser has really improved enough
>>>>to use it, or if ext3 is still the way to go?
>>>>
>>>You'd be best off trying some tests of your own, using files of the size
>>>and quantity you expect to use on a regular basis.  I would consider
>>>ext3, xfs, and reiser3/4... and run some tests with them.  We've had
>>>really good luck using XFS on large raids, I personally had a bad
>>>experience with reiserfs 3, it lost data on a USB based drive, as if it
>>>were never even there, even after trying the recovery tools.
>>>
>>
>>Don't touch anything that doesn't do ordered-mode journaling, especially 
>>if you use raid, unless your data-consistency requirements don't require 
>>this.
>>
>>XFS is best, but does not support ordered-mode.
>>reiser4 is still new.
>>ext3 is rock-solid!
>>
>>--
>>Al
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> Al... you've given us some "do's" .. can you give us some "why's" to go 
> along with them? :)  I would appreciate a run-down with some more specific 
> info as to what/why.
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler.
>
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