The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @09:09AM from the when-shrinkage-is-what-you-want dept.

RazvanM writes "Do the OSes really shrink? Perhaps the user space (MySQL, CUPS) is getting slimmer, but how about the internals? Using as a metric the number of external calls between the filesystem modules and the rest of the Linux kernel I argue that this is not the case. The evidence is a graph that shows the evolution of 15 filesystems from 2.6.11 to 2.6.28 along with the current state (2.6.28) for 24 filesystems. Some filesystems that stand out are: nfs for leading in both number of calls and speed of growth; ext4 and fuse for their above-average speed of growth and 9p for its roller coaster path."

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Re:At least Reiser by Irongeek_ADC · 2009-02-11 09:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

Ah, yes. Reiser, It's a killer filesystem.

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Okay... by jonaskoelker · 2009-02-11 10:01 · Score: 1, Redundant

I'd even rather hear one more variation on our insensitive clod overlords from Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia, insensitive overlords run Linux without windows on YOU!!