On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
sda6 --> xfs with default formatting options. sda7 --> mkfs.xfs -f -d sunit=128,swidth=512 /dev/sda7 sda8 --> ext3 (default) it looks like mkfs.xfs options sunit=128 and swidth=512 did not improve io throughtput as such in bonnie++ tests . it looks like ext3 with default options performed worst in my case.
Of course, doing comparisons using a setup like that (on separate partitions) will skew the results, because discs' performance differs depending on the portion of the disc being accessed. You should perform the different filesystem tests on the same partition one after the other instead.
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