Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

Gerhard Mack
2007-05-02T03:54:09Z

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Cabot, Mason B wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against
> NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for
> video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-man's
> pre-allocation of the file on the server by sending 1-byte writes at
> 128K-byte strides, breaking block allocation on ext3 and leading to
> fragmentation and poor performance. This will happen for many
> applications (including iTunes) as the CIFS client issues these
> pre-allocates under the application layer.
>
> I've posted a brief paper on Intel's OSS website
> (http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/1259.htm). Please give
> it a read and let me know what you think. In particular, I'd like to
> arrive at the right place to fix this problem: is it in the filesystem,
> VFS, or Samba?
>
> thanks,
> Mason
>

Just out of curiosity do other filesystems(reiser, xfs) take the same
performance hit?

Gerjard

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