The test has been performed on AMD Athlon XP 1600+ with 512MB and one IDE disk. The partition for testing was 1GB in size with raw speed (measured by dd) about 43.3 MB/s. The test was:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/.../f bs=1M count=500 conv=sync
For kernel 2.6.24-rc2 the results are:
Filesystem |
Test1 |
Test2 |
Test3 |
OCFS2 (cluster) |
34.6 |
35.3 |
35.4 |
OCFS2 (local) |
37.1 |
36.3 |
37.1 |
EXT3 |
49.8 |
52.6 |
51.0 |
Images from seekwatcher are available at http://beta1.suse.com/private/jack/ocfs2/benchmarks/.
For kernel 2.6.24-rc3-gcab9ba2f (including OCFS2 git tree) the results are:
Filesystem |
Test1 |
Test2 |
Test3 |
Test4 |
Test5 |
OCFS2 (local) |
63.5 |
62.0 |
63.1 |
63.1 |
65.6 |
EXT3 |
57.8 |
57.6 |
61.0 |
60.7 |
59.7 |