Re: [RFC] extents support for EXT3

From: Alex Tomas
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 11:11:51 EST



I forgot the most important thing - I need vmstat output for all runs
to anylize performing

>>>>> Alex Tomas (AT) writes:

AT> quite interesting result. could you help me to investigate that?
AT> it would be great to go through following steps:
AT> 1) create fresh ext3 fs
AT> 2) mount it w/o extents option
AT> 3) run dbench 16 for few times (say, 4)
AT> make sure it performs on that filesystem (cd <mntpoint>; dbench -c ... 16)
AT> 4) unmount fs
AT> 5) recreate that fs
AT> 6) mount it with extents option
AT> 'EXT3-fs: file extents enabled' should be printed in logs
AT> 7) run dbench 16 for few times
AT> 8) unmount that fs and take a look in logs, you should see stats info about
AT> extents usage


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