From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Lyamin Subject: Re: reiser4 enabled livecd Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:58:04 +0400 Message-ID: <20040414145804.GA19430@alias.nmd.msu.ru> References: <20040414112416.GA15922@alias.nmd.msu.ru> Reply-To: flx@msu.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Szakacsits Szabolcs Cc: Reiserfs Mailinglist 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 -- "the liberation loophole will make it clear.." lex lyamin