Benchmark Madness

Guillem Cantallops Ramis writes: "In Bulma (Balearic Islands LUG) we've done real benchmarks this time: Mongo benchmarks (designed by Hans Reiser and used to test ReiserFS, slightly modified by me to support XFS and JFS), kernel compilation benchmarks, and a small "database simulation" benchmark. You'll find everything in english this time, with benchmark results and interesting comments by Dr. Ricardo Galli (Universitat de les Illes Balears, UIB). Have fun... and switch to a journaled filesystem now!" The previous article was here.

Comments

ReiserFS cooler than I thought...

[wrinkledshirt]

...and a small "database simulation" benchmark.

Wow. Does this mean it can handle SQL Server? That's always been my favourite database simulator.

New Filesystems Aren't Apparently Faster

[absurd_spork]

It's really amazing that all these new filesystems that people have invested tremendous amounts of work into are not really significantly faster than the good old Ext2; ReiserFS is better in some disciplines, admittedly, but in others Ext2 is best.

The only advantage the new FSes hold is probably their journaling capability, leading to faster fscks, faster bootups and less risk of data loss. Did we really need a new set of filesystems for that? ( BSD Soft Updates show that the whole speed and reliability advantage can be had with old filesystems as well!) Where's the advantage? Where's the progress? The benchmarks only leave me disappointed.