> Just as a matter of intrest, I'm considering using JFS on my next Gentoo > setup I was wondering if anyone has any idea about its performance > compared to say reiserfs or ext3, I want to avoid XFS as it has only IDE > hard disks and no backup power supply. >
I read a white paper on the subject a while back, may 4 months or so. Basically it proves that EXT2 is the fastest of all the non-journalling filesystems on linux. As for the best journalling performer, it was EXT3. The differences of all the journalling filesystems were measurable, but not so different that any one single filesystem was useless. The slowest of the bunch, on average, was XFS. Give me a while... I'll try and track donw that paper for you. Thank you, Those results seem quite surprising to me, I would have said the order of performance would be: - XFS - ReiserFS - ext2 - ext3 With JFS sitting some were in the list, it will be interesting to see how performance was tested. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
