[Discuss] question about hdd partition

[Lionel Widdifield]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 09:43:29PM +0530, J.Bakshi wrote:
> 
> Just here I like to ask one important question. which one is faster EXT2 or 
> EXT3/reiserfs etc. ? I am always interested to have a faster file system in 
> my home linux PC.

 Ext3 is slower than Ext2. That is the only given.

 Ext2/3 are traditional style filesystems, with the privision ext3 does
metadata logging. Reiserfs is nothing close. Reiserfs, jfs, xfs are all
b*tree based filesystems.

 
 If you use your filesystem as a database (ie randomly accessing 1 file in
10,000 without directory listings) then reiserfs is incredible.

 My squid proxy cache saw an observed 300%+ increase in speed when its
partition was reformated as reiserfs. If you know how reiserfs works this is
no suprise.

 Grab a partition and format it with one filesystem type, test and repeat
with your data and application.


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