Re: EXT vs XFS at 80% filled filesystem

[Milind <milind@gslab.com>]

Hi Theodore,

I am facing some weird problem of cross compiling libuuid sources. I
downloaded e2fsprogs and cross-compiled them but when I do "make
install-libs" it doesn't really install libuuid.so but installs
libuuid.a.

Can I have some pointers to build libuuid.so to have it in my toolchain
libraries.

I have crawled through web but couldn't get any nice solution to this.

Thanks in Advance
-Miline

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:34 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:12:22PM +0530, Milind Dumbare wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have heard of XFS's performance is not good as compared to EXT3 when  
> > the filesystem(disk) is 80% filled with data. Is it true? I have went  
> > through lots of performance documents of both XFS and EXT3 but could not  
> > find such performance benchmarking (for 80% full filesystems).
> 
> I've not heard of any such performance metrics, and I suspect it would
> very much depend on how the filesystem was "aged".  A filesystem that
> has been in use for a few years and is at 80% capacity will behave
> very different from a brand-new filesystem which was freshly formatted
> and then filled with a few large files until said filesystem was 80%
> full.
> 
> 							- Ted
>