--- Rick Taylor <ricktaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:57 -0800, Florin Andrei > wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:40 -0500, Rick B wrote: > > > > > From what I've read XFS main strong point is > *reading* data from the > > > disk faster than other FSs', especially as it > pertains to large video > > > files. But when it comes to writing and > deleting, its performance is > > > worse than other FSes. I've personally tried it > and it didn't seem any > > > faster than ReiserFS. After extensive use of ReiserFS on a hardware raid5 array I'm in the process of cleaning off the array and reformating as ext2. ReiserFS absolutely didn't hold up for write or read operations while using Ardour with 16 or more tracks. I'm not interested in testing the new ReiserFS because all my data is critical. I don't have time to benchmark performance. I've never tested XFS and probably won't until I upgrade to the 2.6 kernels and then I'll wait to hear from people who are reading and writing 16 to 24+ tracks. I'm hesitant about returning to ext2 because I've had fsck blow up in my face more than once...guess that's why I rsync to a big IDE HD. I do expect ext2 performance to be perfectly acceptable. ron > > Actually, XFS is very fast at deleting very large > files. I know, i do > > DVD authoring all the time, Ext3 is simply > ludicrous when deleting a lot > > of very large project files, you have to wait and > wait and wait... With > > XFS, even a 50GB project gets deleted > instantaneously. > > > > Also, when writing real fast to really big files > (think: video capture) > > pretty much nothing beats XFS. > > I'm using it on a few partitions in Debian. It's > pretty nice... seems > stable and fast. I've not put it to any major tests > but the performance > has been really good so far. > > This is pretty good: > > http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/journal_fs/ > > > > -- > http://www.RTaylor-Design.Com > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com