Re: Good, recent FS comparison?

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

http://ioi.homelinux.net/~jnorthrup/filesystem%20benchresults.xls
http://ioi.homelinux.net/~jnorthrup/fsbench

Sorry, apache was being too helpful here...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: "James Northrup" <jim@grrrrr.gotdns.com>
Cc: <pml@dtbb.net>; <a1426z@gawab.com>; <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>; 
<linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>; <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: Good, recent FS comparison?


> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:33:18 -0800 James Northrup wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Do you have a URL that works?
>
>
>> ----- 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.
>
>
> ---
> ~Randy
>