On Wednesday 23 March 2011 08:50:14 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 08:27:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But considering that the thread is all about "what is the best > > filesystem?", that too is to be expected. The very title belies a lack > > of understanding - the best filesystem for you is the one you have > > tested and found best suits your needs. > > A filesystem looks like quite hard to test (as a kernel, as an hardware... > much more complicated than a software you only need to install) : you need > a specific machine to test on it. Which tests/operation to perform ? > > Before launching tests, maybe asking advices to others to have their > experiences would be a great idea ! > > But I would like really to know : can you give a way to test such things ? > (hardware ... quite hard : need to buy before testing, kernel, FS). > > Best regards
no, fs testing is easy. You know what the machine is going to do - so let it do it and measure the time it needs. Easy. That way I found that reiser4+lzo is the best one *for me* and xfs the worst. But I am sure a lot of people have scenarios where xfs is the best. Or ext4. And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. It depends on the stuff you want to do and what do you expect from a file system. Btw, when doing a copy or move test to prime the fs - copy from the same type of filesystem or the numbers are skewed.
