Re: OT: Journaling FS Comparison

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Ian Chilton wrote:
> > With there been 4 of them (ext3, reiserfs, XFS and JFS),
> > it's not an easy choice for anyone.
> 
> at the time when I did the comparison using SPEC SFS to benchmark, the
> choice was not hard at all -- absolute and obvious winner was reiserfs.
> That is, amongst the freely available ones. (this was not too long ago, a
> mere 2 months or so).
> 
> However, if you are willing to pay for your filesystem, our vxfs beats all
> of the above at _very_ (very) high loads (loads unreachable by any other
> filesystem so far ;) in both performance and stability. (well, it beats
> them in most situations at low loads as well but that is not interesting)
> 
> It should be available to our beta-customers via www.veritas.com
> somewhere...
> 
> Regards,
> Tigran
> 
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SPEC SFS is a proprietary and expensive benchmark which precludes us from optimizing for it, which
is a pity, I suspect we'd learn something from analyzing its results.

How much does vxfs cost these days?

Hans