The inode locality patches were added to resolve that performance issue. That was in 2.6.30, iirc.
On Sep 19, 2009, at 9:41 PM, will <whans...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I've been playing with ocfs2 in local mode, and was really suprised > how fast it was. I was playing with extracting a linux distribution > on my hardrive that was tar gzipped (GZIP=-1) and extracting it onto > a different hard drive. > This was with kernel 2.6.28. > ocfs2-5m6s > reiser4-4m19s > reiser3-6m38 > jfs-8m18s > ext2-4m7s > ext3-7m18s > xfs-6m29s > ext4m55s > > I noticed the delete times were very slow with ocfs2, like xfs is if > you don't add the extra buffers at mount time. Also when I deleted > all the files on the ocfs2 partition, I don't get all the space back. > Like maybe a little more than a gig is showing used, but no files. > but here's the weird part. I only got the good speed with ocfs2 on > the first write. If I deleted all the files on that partition, then > extracted the tar file again, the time went up to 8 minutes. I > deleted > them all again, then unmounted and fsck'ed the partition, then mounted > and extracted the tarfile for the third time, and it took 19 minutes. > hope this may help a little. > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
