On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:43:41PM +0100, Jacek Luczak wrote: > > Yep, ext4 is close to my wife's closet. > Were all of the file systems freshly laid down, or was this an aged ext4 file system? Also you should beware that if you have a workload which is heavy parallel I/O, with lots of random, read/write accesses to small files, a benchmark using tar might not be representative of what you will see in production --- different file systems have different strengths and weaknesses --- and the fact that ext3/ext4's readdir() returns inodes in a non-optimal order for stat(2) or unlink(2) or file copy in the cold cache case may not matter as much as you think in a build server. (i.e., the directories that do need to be searched will probably be serviced out of the dentry cache, etc.) Regards, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
