Alex Tomas wrote:

- Large file deletion
- Valerie had recently tested large file deletion on ext3/4, but did not see the expected performance gain with ext4 due to compact metadata when using extents.

any details?


Ok, I found my mistake. There was a typo in my test script and the pagecache was not flushed between the file creation and the deletion.

Here are the results I obtain with a 2.6.17-rc7 kernel to delete a 100GB file:

ext3 : real  2m35.048s    user  0m0.000s     sys  0m6.424s
ext4 : real  0m11.160s    user  0m0.000s     sys  0m5.532s
xfs :  real  0m0.377s     user  0m0.004s     sys  0m0.004s

The performance gain with ext4 is much larger when running a good test...
Sorry the wrong information,

   Valérie


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