From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "James Northrup" Subject: Re: Good, recent FS comparison? Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:02:06 -0800 Message-ID: <007201c60b52$b4124d80$c60c150a@zero> References: <6d5bedd8050915131148b8108a@mail.gmail.com><432A37BF.7060305@dtbb.net><200509162258.37730.a1426z@gawab.com><432D3024.3080302@dtbb.net><002c01c60b3d$ea98c970$c60c150a@zero> <20051227174552.4d19ab6f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pml@dtbb.net, a1426z@gawab.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "Randy.Dunlap" Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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" To: "James Northrup" Cc: ; ; ; ; 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" >> 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. > > > --- > ~Randy >