From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: Good, recent FS comparison? Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:45:52 -0800 Message-ID: <20051227174552.4d19ab6f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <6d5bedd8050915131148b8108a@mail.gmail.com> <432A37BF.7060305@dtbb.net> <200509162258.37730.a1426z@gawab.com> <432D3024.3080302@dtbb.net> <002c01c60b3d$ea98c970$c60c150a@zero> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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: Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:47559 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932393AbVL1BpP (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:45:15 -0500 Received: from midway ([71.111.157.99]) by xenotime.net for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:45:14 -0800 To: "James Northrup" In-Reply-To: <002c01c60b3d$ea98c970$c60c150a@zero> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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