Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3

Andi Kleen
2004-03-03T02:41:03Z

David Weinehall <david@southpole.se> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:30:32PM -0500, Andrew Ho wrote:
> > XFS is the best filesystem.
>
> Well it'd better be, it's 10 times the size of ext3, 5 times the size of
> ReiserFS and 3.5 times the size of JFS.

I think your ext3 numbers are off, most likely you didn't include JBD.

> And people say size doesn't matter.

A lot of this is actually optional features the other FS don't have,
like support for separate realtime volumes and compat code for old
revisions, journaled quotas etc. I think you could
relatively easily do a "mini xfs" that would be a lot smaller.

But on today's machines it's not really an issue anymore.

-Andi