Subject: Re: Desktop Filesystem Benchmarks in 2.6.3
From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
To: pnelson@andrew.cmu.edu
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:11:38 -0800
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Hey there,

> Based on these results I personally am now going with XFS as it's
> faster than ReiserFS in the real-world benchmarks and my current
> Ext3 partition's performance is getting worse and worse.

If your current Ext3 partition was created under 2.4.x, you may wish to
recreate it under 2.6. 2.6 uses a different algorithm to lay out
directory blocks (google on 'orlov allocator') and this can affect
performance.

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Nicely done, btw.

Ray

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