Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3

Ray Lee
2004-03-02T17:11:40Z

Hey there,

> Based on these results I personally am now going with XFS as it's
> faster than ReiserFS in the real-world benchmarks and my current
> Ext3 partition's performance is getting worse and worse.

If your current Ext3 partition was created under 2.4.x, you may wish to
recreate it under 2.6. 2.6 uses a different algorithm to lay out
directory blocks (google on 'orlov allocator') and this can affect
performance.

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Nicely done, btw.

Ray