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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
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.
:-) = I am happy
:^) = I am happy with my big nose
C:\> = I am happy with my OS
You don't have to fsck btrfs (Butterface)?
My nly prblm wth btrfs s tht t dsn't sv any vwls.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng.
You must be new here
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.