Re: reiser4 enabled livecd

[Alexander Lyamin <flx@msu.ru>]

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:12:40PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Talking about livecd's, I'd mention that Recovery Is Possible has also
> Reiser4. It's very often updated, kernel 2.6.5 and as I noticed it always
> has the latest from everything and only 26 MB download:
> 
>       http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

thanks for very intresting link, i'm into such things at moment ;)

> I made some "real world" ntfsclone benchmarks what I use very often during
> NTFS development (e.g. test suite). It reads the NTFS allocation bitmap,
> seeks to the used data positions on the source device, seeks to the same
> position in the destination sparse file or block device and copy the data
> thus the clone is immediately mountable.
> 
> Resiser4 beat everybody: ext2, ext3, xfs, reiserfs, jfs and even including
> raw cloning between partitions! I've never seen such before for any
> filesystem, it _indeed_ optimizes the disk seeks significantly.
> 
> It was about 5% faster than raw cloning and at least 10% faster then the
> next fastest filesytems (ext2 and xfs). I can send full details if one is
> interested.

intrested.

> 
> Congratulations!
> 
> 	Szaka

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