ext3 Overhead

Stephen C. Tweedie sct at redhat.com
Thu Feb 19 21:16:13 UTC 2004


Hi,

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 13:01, christian.braun at ch.abb.com wrote:

> Well, as I said my CF card does wear-levelling, so that's not to worry 
> about. Still, as you said, there is a difference in the number of write 
> accesses between ext2 and ext3... I just need to know in what region that 
> difference is... is it 3 times... or 30 times... or 300... or even more?

For data, there's no difference --- unless you're in data=journal mode
--- except for the fact that ext3 usually starts flushing stuff to disk
earlier than ext2, which can mean that ext3 writes temporary data more
often than ext2.  For metadata, I'd expect ext3 is at most twice the
writes of ext2 in most circumstances, but it's not something I've ever
measured.

--Stephen






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