I'm testing the availible filesystems on Linux for a new storage array. The 
first test was simply copying a large directory containing many small files 
(svn tree from KDE) and measure the time for this. The copied data were ~4GB, 
tested on a 14GB partition. The test were done on a 2.6.18 vanilla kernel, 
patched with ext4 and reiser4. I measured the time needed for copying the 
directory, and after this the time for removing the new dir. For the 
different filesystems I got the following results:

ext2:
cp
4.54user 32.91system 10:52.29elapsed 5%CPU
rm
0.60user 4.75system 2:28.63elapsed 3%CPU

ext3:
cp
4.79user 41.20system 15:10.08elapsed 5%CPU
rm
0.78user 8.39system 2:21.12elapsed 6%CPU

ext4:
cp
5.06user 40.53system 14:44.94elapsed 5%CPU
rm
0.81user 8.81system 2:40.12elapsed 6%CPU

jfs:
cp
4.39user 37.65system 58:02.18elapsed 1%CPU
rm
0.82user 19.25system 32:28.72elapsed 1%CPU

reiser4:
cp
5.76user 88.80system 6:08.21elapsed 25%CPU
rm
0.92user 41.97system 1:39.27elapsed 43%CPU

reiserfs:
cp
5.22user 89.56system 11:44.85elapsed 13%CPU
rm
0.82user 40.32system 1:57.11elapsed 35%CPU

xfs:
cp
6.73user 81.04system 45:21.30elapsed 3%CPU
rm
1.30user 31.71system 21:01.96elapsed 2%CPU


I'm really confused about these times. As I understand XFS and JFS are 
designed for high performance. These results show the absolute opposite. Did 
I missed something or is my understandig of (these) filesystems wrong? I'm 
asking this here because the JFS-results are the worst.

Thanks for help,
Johannes

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