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Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 10:59:45 -0500
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
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Subject: Re: per-char IO tests
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On Sunday, December 09, 2001 04:14:30 PM +0100 Russell Coker
<russell@coker.com.au> wrote:

> Both machines run ReiserFS.  A quick test indicates that using Ext2 instead 
> of ReiserFS triples the  performance of write(fd, buf, 1), but this is 
> something I already knew (and had mentioned before on the ReiserFS list).

This is most likely from logging the inode as you extend the file.  Recent
pre releases for 2.4.17 include a from patch from Andrew that should help,
but I expect reiserfs to still be somewhat slower.

-chris
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