Linux Gazette.net: Benchmarking Filesystems Part II

“After the last article was published, I have received more than
a dozen requests for a second filesystem benchmark using the 2.6
kernel. Since that time, I have converted entirely to XFS for every
Linux machine I use, so I may be a bit bias regarding the XFS
filesystem. I tried to keep the hardware roughly the same. Instead
of a Western Digital 250GB and Promise ATA/100 controller, I am now
am using a Seagate 400GB and Maxtor ATA/133 Promise controller. The
physical machine remains the same, there is an additional 664MB of
swap and I am now running Debian Etch. In the previous article, I
was running Slackware 9.1 with custom compiled filesystem
utilities. I’ve added a small section in the beginning that shows
the filesystem creation and mount time, I’ve also added a graph
showing these new benchmarks. After the first round of benchmarks,
I received a sleuth of e-mails asking for the raw numbers. The
numbers are now included in tables at the end of this e-mail for
both the last and current set of benchmarks…”

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