John, No need to ask to be excused because you don't understand another country's slang. I'm sure that I wouldn't recognize any slang from Germany, or France, and I know I don't understand a lot of British slang. ;)
If anything, I should have remembered that there are a lot of non-US subscribers to the list, and avoided using the terminology. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: John Cassidy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Filesystem Comparison Hello all, excuse my ignorance, but what does "dog" mean??. Something to do with cat or fox etc??. John D. Cassidy Dipl.-Ing (Informatique) S390 & zSeries Systems Engineering Schleswigstr. 7 D-51065 Cologne EU Tel: +49 (0) 221 61 60 777 . GSM: +49 (0) 177 799 58 56 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTTP : www.jdcassidy.net -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Post, Mark K Sent: 30 October 2003 23:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Filesystem Comparison Keep in mind the results from Boeblingen's testing that showed JFS on Linux/390 was an absolute dog. Once again, extrapolating benchmark tests across architectures can be very dangerous. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Filesystem Comparison See: http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003102900626OSKNSW "Mike Benoit recently posted a link to results from his new and improved file system shootout, using better hardware and running more tests. Using two benchmarks that are designed to measure hard drive and file system performance, Bonnie++ and IOZone, he's compared a number journaling filesystems found in the 2.6 kernel. Included in the lineup are EXT2 (not journaling, but an effective baseline [story]), JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and EXT3 each compared head to head on both SCSI and IDE drives. "In Mike's summary he labels JFS and XFS as 'best bang for your buck' explaining, 'While not the fastest file systems, both of them consistently perform close to EXT2, while using minimal CPU. XFS seems to be faster over a wider range of benchmarks, however it does use slightly more CPU than JFS. While JFS really starts to slow down with lots of files.' As for pure speed, Mike points to Reiser4 which really shined in the Bonnie++ benchmarks, though not quite so much in the IOZone benchmarks. He suggests, 'ReiserFS v4 will [definitely] be worth while keeping an eye on, especially considering some of the exciting new features it offers...'"
