On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Adrian Ulrich wrote:
Hi,
If anyone is interested:
I ran a small filesystem benchmark on my x86 PC.
It includes:
On Linux:
* Reiser4
* ReiserFS
* Ext3
On Solaris (Using 'gnusolaris'[.org] -> Alpha 2)
* UFS
* ZFS
NetApp's 'Postmark' was used to perform the tests.
(Postmark simulates something like Mail/NNTP-Server load)
Results:
http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt
(I used the *default* mkfs/mount options for all filesystems.
If you like, i can re-run the test with non-default parameters)
WOW! I am misreading something or Reiser4 is _really_ _that_ _fast_?
Could you also add some basic description what these tests do? Do they
ensure that the data is really written to disk before the timer stops?
What about using bigger partition (and data written/read) - say 4 times
your RAM? Are you rebooting after creating fs? Could you make scripts you
used available?
Could you add ext2, jfs, xfs to these benchmarks? Maybe also some other
bechmarking program? Also maybe add Reiser4 with compression plugin to the
list of filesystems.
Also, maybe you should post the updated results (preferably attached, not
URL if it will fit in 60KB) to LKML for wider discussion about why things
are like this?
Thanks,
Grzegorz Kulewski
