Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750751AbVIJLnl (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:43:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750755AbVIJLnl (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:43:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:26499 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750751AbVIJLnl (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:43:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:42:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: awesley@acquerra.com.au Cc: nate.diller@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.13 buffer strangeness - ext2/3/reiser4/xfs comparison Message-Id: <20050910044240.4e8e8e03.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4322B437.3010309@acquerra.com.au> References: <432151B0.7030603@acquerra.com.au> <5c49b0ed05090914394dba42bf@mail.gmail.com> <432225E0.9030606@acquerra.com.au> <5c49b0ed0509091735436260bb@mail.gmail.com> <432231B7.2060200@acquerra.com.au> <5c49b0ed0509091847135834c0@mail.gmail.com> <432243AA.4000508@acquerra.com.au> <5c49b0ed05090922021b8f8112@mail.gmail.com> <4322B437.3010309@acquerra.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 16 Anthony Wesley wrote: > > I compared ext2,ext3,xfs,vfat,reiser and reiser4. > > The hands-down winner was ext2. All the others showed problems of either lower disk throughput > or dropped frames during video capture. ext2 is a good filesystem. For that sort of application all the journaling gunk can really get in the way. You should have tested ext3 with data=writeback. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/