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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."

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  1. 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.