[Btrfs-users] btrfs 0.13 and XFS comparison

[Chris Samuel]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Chris Mason wrote:

> On Sunday 23 March 2008, Chris Samuel wrote:
>
> > Just gave 0.13 a spin against XFS (both with default mkfs
> > options) on my SATA tower and was impressed by how much
> > performance has improved since last time I played with it (v0.5)!
>
> Great to hear, thanks for doing this.

My pleasure!

> You can mount btrfs with -o nodatasum to see the performance impact
> of the checksumming code.  It is higher than it should be right
> now, both reading and writing because I'm not interacting as well
> with the asyncrhonous writeback and readahead code in the kernel as
> well as I should be.

Actually I'm much more interested in how the filesystems perform when 
functioning as intended, especially when it's got such interesting 
capabilities as btrfs. 

I can't wait for the disk format to get fixed, but I know I need to 
try and be patient.. ;-)

cheers!
Chris
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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