[TriLUG] Fastest file system?
Paul D. Boyle
boyle at laue.chem.ncsu.edu
Thu Oct 25 14:14:49 EDT 2001
Fred Stutzman wrote:
> The ReiserFS is excellent for lots of small i/o. However, it's problems
> with 2.4.7 kernels make me hesitant to reccomend it. I've moved to ext3
> for the time being.
I have been doing a little research on the web about Linux filesystem
performance. I have read that of the journaling filesystems that ReiserFS
is the fastest, but I have also read that that's only true if the disk
is not partitioned. The reason given is that the elevator algorithm
used read/writes blocks in logical order rather than physical order.
If there is someone who knows a bit more about this, I would appreciate
their views.
So far in this discussion no one has recommended the use of XFS or JFS,
is there some technical reason for this?
Paul
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