Re: [BackupPC-users] Best FS for BackupPC
2011-05-24 11:13:17
> 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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