From: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam) Subject: Re: What's the FASTEST FS? Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 13:36:09 GMT
Peter Mutsaers (muts@compi.hobby.nl) wrote:
> >> On Sat, 7 Aug 1993 08:52:35 GMT, erc@apple.com (Ed Carp) said:
> EC> What's the FASTEST FS? I know that ext is much slower than
> EC> ext2, but is minix, xiafs, or ext2 the fastest?
> xiafs is fastest. I measured it many times because I wanted to use
> ext2fs but didn't want to give up xiafs speed. I do hope ext2fs will
> become as fast as xiafs soon.
> ext2fs uses a smarter block allocation scheme, but somehow it doesn't
> seem to pay off. Maybe with SCSI this situation is different however.
How about fragmentation? Which is more resistance to fragmentaion after
some time of use?
Regards,
Savio Lam.