Re: [Lse-tech] Re: ext3 performance bottleneck as the number of spindles gets large

Dave Hansen
2002-06-20T16:11:40Z

Gross, Mark wrote:
> We will get around to reformatting our spindles to some other FS after
> we get as much data and analysis out of our current configuration as we
> can get.
>
> We'll report out our findings on the lock contention, and throughput
> data for some other FS then. I'd like recommendations on what file
> systems to try, besides ext2.

Do you really need a journaling FS? If not, I think ext2 is a sure
bet to be the fastest. If you do need journaling, try reiserfs and jfs.

BTW, what kind of workload are you running under?

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Dave Hansen
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