From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 May 2001 17:30:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 May 2001 17:30:49 -0400 Received: from idiom.com ([216.240.32.1]:13327 "EHLO idiom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 May 2001 17:30:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3AF9546C.4B45FDA7@namesys.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:30:04 -0700 From: Hans Reiser X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14cl i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Lord CC: Alan Cox , " =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn=20Marqu=E9s?=" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yura@namesys.com Subject: Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 In-Reply-To: <200105092125.f49LPew13300@jen.americas.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steve Lord wrote: > > > > XFS is very fast most of the time (deleting a file is sooooo slow its like us > > ing > > old BSD systems). Im not familiar enough with its behaviour under Linux yet. > > Hmm, I just removed 2.2 Gbytes of data in 30000 files in 37 seconds (14.4 > seconds system time), not tooo slow. And that is on a pretty vanilla 2 cpu > linux box with a not very exciting scsi drive. > > > > > What you might want to do is to make a partition for 'mystery journalling fs' > > and benchmark a bit. > > > > Alan > > > > I agree with Alan here, the only sure fire way to find out which filesystem > will work best for your application is to try it out. I have found reiserfs > to be very fast in some tests, especially those operating on lots of small > files, but contrary to some peoples, belief XFS is good for a lot more than > just messing with Gbyte long data files. > > Steve Lord > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ XFS used to have the performance problems that Alan described but fixed them in the linux port, yes? Hans