Large File Deletion Comparison (ext3, ext4, XFS)

2007-04-27 Thread Valerie Clement
As asked by Alex, I included in the test results the file fragmentation level and the number of I/Os done during the file deletion. Here are the results obtained with a not very fragmented 100-GB file: | ext3 ext4 + extents xfs

Re: Large File Deletion Comparison (ext3, ext4, XFS)

2007-04-27 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Apr 27, 2007 14:33 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: Here are the results obtained with a not very fragmented 100-GB file: | ext3 ext4 + extents xfs nb of fragments | 796 798

Re: Large File Deletion Comparison (ext3, ext4, XFS)

2007-04-27 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Apr 27, 2007 15:41 +0200, Valerie Clement wrote: As asked by Alex, I included in the test results the file fragmentation level and the number of I/Os done during the file deletion. Here are the results obtained with a not very fragmented 100-GB file: | ext3

Re: Large File Deletion Comparison (ext3, ext4, XFS)

2007-04-27 Thread Alex Tomas
Andreas Dilger wrote: Ah, one thing that is only mentioned in the URL is that the IO count is in units of 512-byte sectors. In the case of XFS doing logical journaling this avoids a huge amount of double writes to the journal and then to the filesystem. I still think ext4 could do better than