[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 v. ext3 performance

Fri May 5 09:43:34 CDT 2006

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:13:37AM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> While playing with Oracle 10gR2 RAC on OCFS2, we decided to run some
> iozone benchmarks on a single node OCFS2 v. ext3 on the same LUNs.  ext3
> outperforms OCFS2 by 12 - 27% in the tests.

	Were you running with the -I option to ensure O_DIRECT I/O on
all filesystems?  Actually, does strace(1) prove that out?

Joel

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