Filesystem benchmarks

[Christopher Chan]

Robin Laing wrote:
> I don't know how many people have seen this but it may be of interest or 
> useful.
> 
> Benchmarking Filesystems
> <http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html>
> 
> This article covers ext2, ext3, JFS, REISERFS and XFS.
> 
> I found it interesting.
> 

I found it useless.

Test done on a vanilla 2.4.26

A far more interesting one can be found at 
http://untroubled.org/benchmarking/2004-04/

which simulates real world conditions for mta boxes with recent kernels 
and not with a kernel that is not going to receive much attention anymore.

Add to that that things have changed so much in 2.6 from 2.4 that fs 
code is substantially different. eg: XFS in 2.4 is different from XFS in 2.6

Now Bruce Guenter's benchmark is a much more well thought out model of a 
benchmark and performed on all options available.