<snip> > 5. Finally, one other thing concerns me a bit. The researchers I read > suggested XFS has by far the worst file deletion performance of any of the > journaling file systems, and Reiserfs supposedly has the best. I'm pretty sure that someone got that wrong. The real issue is that xfs is really slow comparatively at deleting *small* files. I did a test just a couple months ago comparing reiser and xfs. xfs was 30x slower. My test was to make a copy of a linux kernel source tree. Then time deleting it. Reiser did it in a couple seconds. xfs took a minute. So xfs is not a good choice to hold your source directories it your a kernel developer. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
