Huge Increase for Ext2/Ext3 Performance
pixelbeat writes "Grigory Orlov origonally implemented this
new allocator for FreeBSD, and it's been
merged in 2.5.46 and the first benchmarks are in:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103 650970512510&w=2
In summary:
13% increase on unpacking a kernel tarball
43% increase on uncached kernel tree traversal
48% increase on cached kernel tree traversal
170%increase on deleting kernel tree"
This would be more of a test of your hard drive than the filesystem. If you just need to manipulate one big file, you don't really need a filesystem, then, do you?
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