Also Sprach civileme: > > It looks to be a contest between ext3 and Reiserfs for real. Here is the current >status: > > We use a sledgehammer to test filesystems. It makes 100,000 files from 1.1 to 3k in >size then > randomly alters the sizes of the files between 2 and 9k each then cleans up after >itself > when given the stop instruction, with a one-by-one delete of the files. If run in >inactive or > dead mode, it receives the stop instruction as soon as the 100,000 files are built >and then > takes them down. This is used for benchmarking filesystems. > > JFS reproducibly collapses under the benchmark and takes the system with it, even if >the > scratch directory is the only item on the jfs partition and the rest are ext2. > > Unless something fantastic happens with JFS very soon, you will not be seeing it in >8.1. > > Reiser and nfs mounts are still problematic though having Reiser support no longer >seems to > weaken nfs for other types of mounts. Reiser has stood up to several 8 hour runs of >the sledgehammer > on different machines, but not over nfs. No data corruption, though. > > There is also an open question about / filesystems of the journaling type. Perhaps >it is best to > keep / small and ext2. Reiser notail mounts were the best in earlier versions, but >in 8.0 lost > files and kernel oopses were commonly observed, as well as system hangs when trying >to rebuild > notail mounts. > > Civileme > > How does XFS 1.0.1 perform under Sledgehammer? XFS may not be the fastest of the journalled filesystem for all benchmarks but it does work with knfsd, has a working dump util, and supports user and group quotas. I installed the XFS 1.0.1 RPM compiled for Redhat 7.1 but it seems to work on Mandrake 8.0 minus supermount which is not needed on an NFS server. -- C. Chan < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key.
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