Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 3, 2008 @03:39AM from the but-i-live-in-a-fake-world dept.

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."

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Short lifespan? I don't think so. by Viol8 · 2008-12-03 03:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

Admins tend to stick with what they know and ext4 is a natural progression from ext3. btrfs however hasn't even reached version 1.0 yet - and to be honest who is going to want to use a 1.0 release anyway on something as fundamental as a filesystem? Also its development is being done by an Oracle team , albeit FOSS , which may put a few people off.
My prediction for what its worth is that ext4 will be around for a LONG time.