From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: [C] Best Filesystem? Date: 9 Jul 1993 15:48:39 GMT
On 8 Jul 93 21:53:40 GMT, muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) said:
> If it comes to features and future developments: ext2. If it comes to
> speed: xiafs. (I did extensive tests on large filesystems)
> I think both are very reliable. ext and minix are either very slow or
> very limited.
> I chose xiafs because I don't need the extra features at the moment
> and like the extra speed.
Interesting - I'd very much like to see your results. Certainly, the
first versions of ext2fs were not much faster than minix fs, but since
ext2fs got it's new allocation code (around 0.99pl7 or so), it's speed
is much improved, and beats xiafs consistently by around 5 or 10% on
every test I have tried.
I have only ever seen one previous claim on c.o.l. that xiafs beats
ext2fs, and I asked the author for details of his system. He replied
by repeating all of his tests, twice, and ext2fs won.
So, if you are judging ext2fs's speed on the basis of the performance
of older versions, you might be pleasantly surprised at how it goes
these days. However, if you have an environment in which ext2fs
really does lose out, I'd be very interested if you could send me some
details.
Cheers,
Stephen.