Hi Jason. Brtfs is cool, I read that it has a 10% better performance then any other FS coming next to it.
Can you post here the results of any your findings? Regards. 2009/10/8 Jason Venner <[email protected]> > Busy datanodes become bound by the metadata lookup times for the directory > and inode entries required to open a block. > Anything that optimizes that will help substantially. > > We are thinking of playing with brtfs, and using a small SSD for our file > system metadata, and the spinning disks for the block storage. > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Tom Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As an aside, there's a short article comparing the two in the latest > > edition of Linux Journal. It was hardly scientific, but the main > > points were: > > > > - XFS is faster than ext3, especially for large files > > - XFS is currently unsupported on Red Hat Enterprise, but apparently > > will be soon. > > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Stas Oskin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Thanks for the info, question is whether XFS performance justifies > > switching > > > from the more common Ext3? > > > > -- > > Tom Wheeler > > http://www.tomwheeler.com/ > > > > > > -- > Pro Hadoop, a book to guide you from beginner to hadoop mastery, > http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430219424?tag=jewlerymall > www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals >
