On Nov 05, 2001 14:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But I don't know. This is just all bullshit handwaving speculation.
> We need tests. Numbers. Does anyone have source to a filesystem
> aging simulation? The Smith/Seltzer code seems to be off the air.
There is a guy doing fragmentation testing for reiserfs. It turns
out that (in his tests) reiserfs can get 10x slower as the filesystem
fills up because of intra-file fragmentation. I don't know enough
about reiserfs block/file allocation policy to know how this compares
to ext2 at all.
See http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/agetest.html
Cheers, Andreas
-- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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