Re: [Lse-tech] Re: ext3 performance bottleneck as the number of spindles

[Dave Hansen]

Gross, Mark wrote:
> We will get around to reformatting our spindles to some other FS after 
> we get as much data and analysis out of our current configuration as we 
> can get. 
>  
> We'll report out our findings on the lock contention, and throughput 
> data for some other FS then.  I'd like recommendations on what file 
> systems to try, besides ext2.

Do you really need a journaling FS?  If not, I think ext2 is a sure 
bet to be the fastest.  If you do need journaling, try reiserfs and jfs.

BTW, what kind of workload are you running under?

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Dave Hansen
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