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Benchmarking Linux Filesystems In New 2.6 Kernel

Posted by michael on from the file-it-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article about a recent benchmark conducted to compare five journaling filesystems available with the current 2.6.0-test2 Linux development kernel. The tests were conducted with a very simple shell script, mainly timing how long it takes to copy, tar, and remove directories. Looks like reiser4 is the fastest filesystem at the expense of consuming much more CPU, with ext3 trailing a ways behind."

2 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Speed is not of the essence by Molina+the+Bofh · · Score: 3, Funny
    Pick one of the three answers:

    With the new and improved Magnetic Forensics Tunnelling Electronic Microscope, used by the FBI

    He had a backup

    XFS takes so long to sync that by the time it would start to sync, he turned his computer off

    --

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    Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, find / -name '*base*' |xargs chown -R us && mv zig greatjustice
  2. CPU Usage?! by metalmaniac1759 · · Score: 4, Funny

    30%-40% CPU Usage - whoa. What happens to poor me - with a PIII 550 MHz, 128 MB SDRAM and KDE running all the time.

    I switched from RedHat to Gentoo and KDE stopped crawling. God knows what will happen with ReiserFS4.

    Nandz.