Finally, Reiser4 Benchmarks Against EXT4 & Btrfs

“There is no shortage of EXT4 benchmarks from comparing this
evolutionary file-system’s performance on netbooks to how it
battles the Btrfs file-system to its performance recession. We have
even benchmarked it on USB flash drives and on high-end SSDs. We
have also delivered numerous Btrfs benchmarks. In this article
though we are finally delivering something that has long been
requested and that is Reiser4 file-system benchmarks running
directly against EXT4 and Btrfs. We have also thrown in the
original ReiserFS file-system for comparison too.

“The future of the Reiser4 file-system has been in debate since
2007 and earlier since the file-system’s lead developer, Hans
Reiser, was sent to prison for murdering his wife in California. As
of right now there are no immediate plans to push the Reiser4
file-system into the mainline Linux kernel even as an experimental
file-system, but it may aim for inclusion this year as we found out
from Edward Shishkin who had taken over much of the Reiser4
development. Reiser4 is designed to be a more efficient journaling
file-system than ReiserFS and other Linux file-systems particularly
when handling small files, faster support for large directories,
provide a plug-in infrastructure for supporting encryption and
compression, offer transaction support, and have a dynamically
optimized disk layout.”

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