Re: First benchmarks of the ext4 file system

[Linux Portal]

On 10/22/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:57:36 +0200
> "Linux Portal" <linportal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ext4 is 20 percent faster writer than ext3 or reiser4, probably thanks
> > to extents and delayed allocation. On other tests it is either
> > slightly faster or slightly slower. reiser4 comes as a nice surprise,
> > winning few benchmarks. Both are very stable, no errors during
> > testing.
> >
> > http://linux.inet.hr/first_benchmarks_of_the_ext4_file_system.html
>
> ext4 doesn't implement delayed allocation (yet).
>
> I made some observations regarding comparative benchmarking of filesystems
> when releasing 2.6.19-rc1-mm1.  They seem to have been ignored ;)  See
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc1/2.6.19-rc1-mm1/announce.txt

Yeah, and because of this: "Although this doesn't seem to make much
difference with ext3" which is what I observed, too, in some other
benchmarks.
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