On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 08:10:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 06:12:44PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > > > > Is there a speed advantage? I know there's a filesystem advantage > > > for it if your computer crashes or loses power. > > > > I don't think there's any significant performance change. Not that > > I've been able to notice. > > I was reading about ext2 vs. the various journaling filesystem performance > benchmarks. ext2 is faster than any of them. I've used Reiser and ext3 > journalling, and found reiser to be quite a bit faster for my needs.
>From what I've read, ReiserFS is fast with big files, like an MP3 collection, but slow with lots of small files/directories. ext2 is faster because it doesn't contain as many checks or "write journal entries". IIRC ext2 uses asynchronous I/O, which makes it fast but not so nice after crashes/power outages. How well a filesystem performs is also largely dependant upon what's in it. There's also often a tradeoff between speed and reliability. I'm curious to see how fast and reliable the ffs in FreeBSD 5 will be, and what the Linux response will be. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
