After Andreas talk yesterday I did some tests on my T61. This is not really a
perfect benchmark setup but Andreas said I should send the data anyway.
make clean (ext3)
real 0m3.073s
user 0m1.324s
sys 0m1.444s
make -j 4 (ext3)
real 6m37.377s
user 10m58.081s
sys 1m38.890s
make clean (ext4)
real 0m6.443s
user 0m1.712s
sys 0m1.824s
make -j 4 (ext4)
real 6m42.694s
user 10m59.593s
sys 1m36.994s
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype
needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg
dir_nlink extra_isize
Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash test_filesystem
That is with the patch queue from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/ext4-patches/2.6.26-ext4-1
on top of 2.6.26. Both ext3 and ext4dev are running on logical volumes (no
barrier support). I used the latest e2fsprogs available.
HTH,
Jan