These are some rough performance comparisons of GFS and it's rival filesystems. These numbers aren't very up to date as some improvements have been made to deallocation and such since these. ----- Forwarded message from Ken Preslan <kpreslan at mail.sistina.com> ----- Reiserfs: jubjub:kpreslan:40:time tar xf ~/kpreslan.tar 4.460u 98.090s 2:45.91 61.8% 0+0k 0+0io 391072pf+0w jubjub:kpreslan:76:time tar cf /dev/null kpreslan 2.480u 4.580s 0:51.57 13.6% 0+0k 0+0io 156pf+0w jubjub:kpreslan:86:time fast_rm-r kpreslan > /dev/null 4.710u 23.200s 0:29.63 94.1% 0+0k 0+0io 618pf+0w Ext2: jubjub:kpreslan:112:time tar xf ~/kpreslan.tar 4.010u 51.450s 4:02.06 22.9% 0+0k 0+0io 391088pf+0w jubjub:kpreslan:122:time tar cf /dev/null kpreslan 2.020u 3.810s 1:20.27 7.2% 0+0k 0+0io 172pf+0w jubjub:kpreslan:133:time fast_rm-r kpreslan > /dev/null 3.940u 7.200s 2:17.39 8.1% 0+0k 0+0io 622pf+0w GFS: jubjub:kpreslan:16:time tar xf ~/kpreslan.tar 4.480u 101.790s 12:36.30 14.0% 0+0k 0+0io 391072pf+0w jubjub:kpreslan:33:time tar cf /dev/null kpreslan 2.920u 15.010s 1:51.70 16.0% 0+0k 0+0io 152pf+0w jubjub:kpreslan:45:time fast_rm-r kpreslan > /dev/null 4.980u 31.090s 41:15.54 1.4% 0+0k 0+0io 643pf+0w ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.3951 Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) Key fingerprint = A69A 118D 710B 8EB0 DC3B D912 2F19 311A 02DD 1908 Make the force be with you. And for god's sake men, be careful. ** Lt.Col. Eaton 3rd Battalion 14th Infantry - Panama Jungle 1991 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20001215/69775f95/attachment.pgp