From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: EXTFS is slow?? Which FS to use then?? Date: 28 Feb 1993 23:01:48 GMT
In article <1993Feb27.144250.693@rzrbyte.fay.ar.us>, tep@rzrbyte.fay.ar.us (Tim Peoples) writes:
| So, here's my question... Which of the new Linux file systems
| is stable enough to use as a replacement for the ext/fs and is also
| as fast or faster than the original minix fs?
I don't know the status of efs2, but Peter was planning to put it in
SLS at one time, so I assume he's satisfied. xfs has been out a bit longer, and seems stable enough
for regular usage. My limited use of xfs looks solid, I used it for a
partition where random size files were created and released. I ran a
benchmark, but can't find the results. I don't remember any particular
penalty of the Minix f/s, and it didn't get too badly fragmented (<5%
after a few hours, ega was ~40% - from memory).
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
Windows NT is a *great* program!
It's everything CP/M should have been all along.