Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-18 Thread Adam Carter
suggest and post back. Do you think btrfs (with or without compression) would be faster than reiser? If so I will try that as well. On my system it is twice as fast as reiser3 for _lots_ (200.000) of small files with compression on (didn't test is without compression). I didn't test if with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/07/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: WOW! Those differences are crazy! Please - I know benchmarking takes a lot of time - but could you check something: the behavior those fs have at what time they flush data from cache to disk is very different. Have you made sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-06 Thread Adam Carter
FYI some braindead benchmarking, reiserfs vs ext4, kernel 2.6.35-gentoo-r8 Copy same DVD image from internal reiserfs drive to freshly formatted external drive; reiserfs1m37.530s ext43m15.074s Then image copy on that external drive; # time cp CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-06 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/06/2010 10:04 AM, Adam Carter wrote: FYI some braindead benchmarking, reiserfs vs ext4, kernel 2.6.35-gentoo-r8 Copy same DVD image from internal reiserfs drive to freshly formatted external drive; reiserfs1m37.530s ext43m15.074s Then image copy on that external drive;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-06 Thread Adam Carter
WOW! Those differences are crazy! Please - I know benchmarking takes a lot of time - but could you check something: the behavior those fs have at what time they flush data from cache to disk is very different. Have you made sure that you measured the time it really needs? I mean the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-02 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/01/2010 04:40 PM, James wrote: Daniel Troeder daniel at admin-box.com writes: As I read about the nice performance of btrfs with compression I tried it out two weeks ago. I'll be posting my benchmarks to this list soon. Until now I didn't have any problems, but still would not use

[gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-02 Thread James
Daniel Troeder daniel at admin-box.com writes: $ mkfs.btrfs /dev/xyz To use compression, just mount with -o compress. /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/vg0-portage /gentoo btrfs noatime,compress 0 2 I installed sys-fs/btrfs-progs-0.19-r1 and I have the 'acl' flag on. Fair enough, thanks James

[gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-01 Thread James
Daniel Troeder daniel at admin-box.com writes: As I read about the nice performance of btrfs with compression I tried it out two weeks ago. I'll be posting my benchmarks to this list soon. Until now I didn't have any problems, but still would not use btrfs on production systems. What

[gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-09-30 Thread James
Adam Carter adamcarter3 at gmail.com writes: Taring my mp3 collection from 2.5in 500MB internal sata drive (sda) to esata 3.5in 500MB drive (sdb) and it seems slow. Well, there are multiple avenues to nail down your specific issues, most documented or hinted at in the archives of this

[gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-09-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/30/2010 07:00 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2010 14:10:42 Florian Philipp wrote: An HDD gets slower when you read the inner tracks. The angular velocity is constant (5400 RPM) while the tangential velocity gets lower with the radius. Are you telling us that the