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Re: [News] Linux Filesystems Comparison/Benchmark

  • Subject: Re: [News] Linux Filesystems Comparison/Benchmark
  • From: Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:45:47 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Erisian claw
  • References: <6000262.ap0XDyKP3v@schestowitz.com> <1147795265.30947.0@damia.uk.clara.net>
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  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1109870
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 17:01:05 +0100,
 BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | There are a lot of Linux filesystems comparisons available but most of
>> | them are anecdotal, based on artificial tasks or completed under older
>> | kernels. This benchmark essay is based on 11 real-world tasks
>> | appropriate for a file server with older generation hardware (Pentium
>> | II/III, EIDE hard-drive).
>> `----
>> 
>>                 http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
>
> That isn't an entirely fair comparison. ReiserFS would show greater benefits
> on larger systems than ext3 would, because that was ReiserFS's orriginal
> target. You didn't tend to use it at all unless you were on at least 80G.
>

That may have been ReiserFS's *goal* but that doesn't mean it actually
made that goal. Maybe it did, but don't assume so. 


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Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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