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Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4
Ashmash writes "Phoronix has put out a fresh series of benchmarks that show the real world performance of the Ext4 file-system. They ran 19 tests on Fedora 10 with changing out their primary partition to test Ext3, Ext4, Xfs, and ReiserFS. The Linux 2.6.27 kernel was used with the latest file-system support. In the disk benchmarks like Bonnie++ Ext4 was a clear winner but with the real world tests the results were much tighter and Xfs also possessed many wins. They conclude though that Ext4 is a nice upgrade over Ext3 due to the new features and just not improved performance in a few areas, but its lifespan may be short with btrfs coming soon."
What, no ext2 comparison? seems like a pretty glaring omission.
My prediction for what its worth is that ext4 will be around for a LONG time.
Like... how long? Longer than it takes to fsck an 80GB ext2 filesystem? Because that's a pretty long time.
See, I already thought of that, so I run no fewer than 5 generations behind.
I started at 1, but realized that soon this practice would become widespread and then I'd be back to being an early adopter. So I moved to 2 generations. But then a friend agreed with my plan and I saw that in not too very long I'd be an early adopter again with my 2 gen old system. Not this time! I skipped the 3 and 4 generation delay and went right to the 5 generation wait time. I figured it was the only way to be sure I wouldn't get hit by any bugs.
Shoot, now the secret's out. Time to roll back my filesystem again.
-- i am jack's amusing sig file
I vote for butt rape filesystem.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
That's the new name for reiserfs.
ReiserFS used to be the killer FS, but now it seems like it is stuck. But I shall not be the judge of that, though there seems to be some truth buried in it somehow. And not to mention, the next release is probably more than a few years down the road.
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You don't have to fsck btrfs (Butterface)?
To what? Pencil and paper?
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
My nly prblm wth btrfs s tht t dsn't sv any vwls.
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f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng.
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Next time check his /. ID first ;)
Pointy stick and a large beach.
Just be aware of occasional data loss when the tide_in function gets called.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
hrm, i prefer ZFS (or as it is affectionately known - 'icantbelieveitsnotbttrfs')
It's still in development... obviously not ready for production use.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
The real problem with reiserfs: vendor lock-in.
The /. ID key overflowed, he's only been here a few days.