From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "James Northrup" Subject: Re: Good, recent FS comparison? Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:33:18 -0800 Message-ID: <002c01c60b3d$ea98c970$c60c150a@zero> References: <6d5bedd8050915131148b8108a@mail.gmail.com> <432A37BF.7060305@dtbb.net> <200509162258.37730.a1426z@gawab.com> <432D3024.3080302@dtbb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Linux RAID Mailing List" , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "Tyler" , "Al Boldi" Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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" To: "Al Boldi" Cc: ; "Linux RAID Mailing List" ; 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 >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > 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. > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 9/16/2005 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >