Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Linux File System Shootout

Posted by simoniker on from the bang-bang-it's dept.

IpSo_ writes "Finally an extensive, human readable Linux file system benchmark has been unleashed upon us. Originally posted on the Linux Kernel mailing list, using two of the most popular benchmarking tools available, it compares all the major file systems, including their different mount options. The results are surprising."

4 of 437 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cheaters! by davFr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Indeed It would be very interesting to see the results of the microsoft fs supported by linux (fat32, ntfs), as well as more exotic ones (BSD, Netfs, minix, etc).

    --
    RIP Slashdot. I used to love you. dead account - but slashdot wont let me delete it.
  2. Re:Short summary by Afrosheen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Christ, where are my mod points when I need them most, you deserve a +1 Insightful for this.

    I totally agree. CPU cycles are alot less important on my box than disk seek times. Then again, I'm guessing that the people this will be most relevant for are those running servers. Mine are all running reiserfs and ext2.

  3. Can't wait for Novell Storage System on Linux by thehunger · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Personally, I'm happy to wait for yet another file system: Novell Storage System. It certainly is feature packed. Now before you all start banging on me, remember that Novell for years was the king of file system services. Just some of the features:
    • Compression and fast decompression
    • Hiearchical storage system integration
    • Advanced access control model, with granular access control with inheritance and inheritance filters
    • Copy on Write
    • File system snapshot
    • Journaling
    • Transaction tracking
    • DFS, Junctions and yes! symbolic links!
    • Disk, directory and user level quotas
    • Fast mount and repair times
    • Name spaces for MAC, NFS, NCP
    • Native CIFS, NFS, AFP and WebDAV protocol support
    • Clustering support
    • Software mirroring and RAID0 striping
    • Fast! State of the art caching and read-ahead algorithms
    • Low memory requirements
    • Scalable: 64-bit, 8 terabyte sizes, pooling etc

    I could go on... About the only thing it is missing is encryption. Of course it remains to be seen whether the port to Linux will be successful, and whether Novell has the sense to make it open source.

  4. there is more to a filesystem that speed. by msh104 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    every filesystem has its own purpose, for example reiser4 has atomic operations, database like capabilities, journalizing and metadata. now how are you going to say that ext2 is better because it performed better in brenchmark xyz. this is just the same thing as people buying a graphics card because it scored 1 or 2 fps more then an other card but forget that the other card has a build in mpeg2 or for the same price.