> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Jakma <Paul.Jakma@Digital.com> writes:
> > Apparently SGI will be open-sourcing XFS - to be announced at Linux Expo.
>
> XFS has some nice features such as journalling, dynamically managed inodes,
> B-tree directories, and real-time features for multimedia streams (looks like
> this last one will not be in the open-sourced code).
> But how about performance ? Does anybody have comparisons of various
> filesystems in terms of performance ?
SGI has demonstrated r/w 7gb/s from a single filedescriptor on the apropriate
hardware. Other engineers have told me that in none of the benchmarks they
have done for customers XFS has ever been the bottleneck. Actually the only
point where XFS' performance sucks is when rm -rf.
Ralf
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