My main reasons for using XFS over ext3 have been, again myth/video related, when deleting large files. XFS is much quicker. Has anyone done much benchmarking with ext4 yet? If not I have a spare 250GB drive I might throw in and test some delete speeds, and other I/O related benchmarking on.
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Hans Fugal <[email protected]> wrote: > Linux 2.6.28 is just out and it includes support for ext4 which is now > stable. Coincidentally, a new 500G drive is meandering its way to my > home as we speak. It will be used mostly for MythTV (with 2 HD tuners > and much transcoding, though I'm not I/O bound on the transcoding). I'm > an XFS fan, especially for multimedia like MythTV or audio/video > editing. But, ext4 looks to have many of the advantages of XFS. I > haven't done a point-by-point comparison since I'm not an expert on > filesystems, but the major points that they both have are being > extent-based, delayed allocation, fragmentation resistance and online > defragmentation, and some others probably. > > XFS' big disadvantage from where I sit is that you can't shrink it, only > grow it. I have wished to shrink an XFS at least once before, so this > isn't a theoretical problem. Its big advantage is that it's stable and > proven. > > ext4's big disadvantage is its newness. Stable or not it's much newer > than XFS and a .0 release at the moment. It's advantages include kernel > developer mindshare, eventualy mainstreamness, and ???. That's where you > come in. Does ext4 have any significant feature that XFS doesn't, that > mere mortals running MythTV might notice? Does ext4 support shrinkage? > Any thoughts? > > > -- > Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net > > There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the > right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. > -- Johann Sebastian Bach > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
