> Michael Stowe wrote at about 08:25:35 -0500 on Tuesday, May 24, 2011:
>  >
>  > I did a relatively short filesystem comparison when I moved my BackupPC
>  > pool to another set of drives.  The high level results:
>  >
>  > jfs, xfs:  quick, stable
>  > reiserfs:  not stable
>  > ext4:      slow
>  > ext3:      very slow
>  >
>
> Any idea which particular file operations are causing ext3/4 to be
> slow relative to jfs/xfs? Is it reading? writing? linking? listing?
> all of the above equally?

Linking and listing were where the main differences surfaced -- I
speculate it's because xfs and jfs are more efficient at handling
directory entries, but I didn't look into it too deeply -- I didn't do any
special tuning on any of the filesystems.


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