Teddy, It is a pity you don't address the full set of results, when you make your snide comments. Now since you have them,... why don't you make reasoned comment about them. You can read more here: http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/fs-benchmarks.htm and http://m.domaindlx.com/LinuxHelp/resources/fs-benchmarks.htm .-------------------------. | FILESYSTEM | TIME |DISK | | TYPE |(secs)|USAGE| .-------------------------. |REISER4 lzo | 1938 | 278 | |REISER4 gzip| 2295 | 213 | |REISER4 | 3462 | 692 | |EXT2 | 4092 | 816 | |JFS | 4225 | 806 | |EXT4 | 4408 | 816 | |EXT3 | 4421 | 816 | |XFS | 4625 | 779 | |REISER3 | 6178 | 793 | |FAT32 |12342 | 988 | |NTFS-3g |10414 | 772 | .-------------------------. Column one measures the time taken to complete the bonnie++ benchmarking test (run with the parameters bonnie++ -n128:128k:0) Column two, Disk Usage: measures the amount of disk used to store 655MB of raw data (which was 3 different copies of the Linux kernel sources). OR LOOK AT THE FULL RESULTS: .-------------------------------------------------. |File |Disk |Copy |Copy |Tar |Unzip| Del | |System |Usage|655MB|655MB|Gzip |UnTar| 2.5 | |Type | (MB)| (1) | (2) |655MB|655MB| Gig | .-------------------------------------------------. |REISER4 gzip | 213 | 148 | 68 | 83 | 48 | 70 | |REISER4 lzo | 278 | 138 | 56 | 80 | 34 | 84 | |REISER4 tails| 673 | 148 | 63 | 78 | 33 | 65 | |REISER4 | 692 | 148 | 55 | 67 | 25 | 56 | |NTFS3g | 772 |1333 |1426 | 585 | 767 | 194 | |NTFS | 779 | 781 | 173 | X | X | X | |REISER3 | 793 | 184 | 98 | 85 | 63 | 22 | |XFS | 799 | 220 | 173 | 119 | 90 | 106 | |JFS | 806 | 228 | 202 | 95 | 97 | 127 | |EXT4 extents | 806 | 162 | 55 | 69 | 36 | 32 | |EXT4 default | 816 | 174 | 70 | 74 | 42 | 50 | |EXT3 | 816 | 182 | 74 | 73 | 43 | 51 | |EXT2 | 816 | 201 | 82 | 73 | 39 | 67 | |FAT32 | 988 | 253 | 158 | 118 | 81 | 95 | .-------------------------------------------------. Each test was preformed 5 times and the average value recorded. Disk Usage: The amount of disk used to store the data (which was 3 different copies of the Linux kernel sources). The raw data (without filesystem meta-data, block alignment wastage, etc) was 655MB. Copy 655MB (1): Copy the data over a partition boundary. Copy 655MB (2): Copy the data within a partition. Tar Gzip 655MB: Tar and Gzip the data. Unzip UnTar 655MB: UnGzip and UnTar the data. Del 2.5 Gig: Delete everything just written (about 2.5 Gig). To get a feel for the performance increases that can be achieved by using compression, we look at the total time (in seconds) to run the test: bonnie++ -n128:128k:0 (bonnie++ is Version 1.93c) .-------------------. | FILESYSTEM | TIME | .-------------------. |REISER4 lzo | 1938| |REISER4 gzip| 2295| |REISER4 | 3462| |EXT4 | 4408| |EXT2 | 4092| |JFS | 4225| |EXT3 | 4421| |XFS | 4625| |REISER3 | 6178| |FAT32 | 12342| |NTFS-3g |>10414| .-------------------. On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:56:32 -0400, "Theodore Tso" <tytso@xxxxxxx> said: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:44:57PM -0700, johnrobertbanks@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > To get a feel for the performance increases that can be achieved by > > using compression, we look at the total time (in seconds) to run the > > test: > > You mean the performance increases of writing a file which is mostly > all zero's? Yawn..... > > - Ted -- johnrobertbanks@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html