Jerry Normandin wrote: > AFS on EXT3? No there are Metadata issues. EXT3 was intended for this. > I inherited a mess here that I am fixing. My predecessor built is using > Ext3 for the /vicepa filesystems. It takes a hell of a long time to > create, > Delete, or rename files. I tested with Bonnie++... here are my stats: > > Initial file performance baselines taken from ENG02 with 4096kbyte > cache: > > read performance on disk is 6.7 x faster than AFS > read performance on nfs is 2.0 x faser than AFS > > write performance is actually impressive. file creation and deletion > are very slow on afs. > > file creation and deletion times is horrible. I will be working on a > solution to solve this. Once file creation and deletion times are > comparable to NFS, then AFS should perform well.
Upgrade to 1.4.5 and check your performance again. You should see a measurable improvement on EXT3. Jeffrey Altman
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