Re: Reiser vs EXT3

[David C. Hansen]

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:51, Hans Reiser wrote:
> If you want to talk about 2.6 then you should talk about reiser4 not 
> reiserfs v3, and reiser4 is 7.6 times the write performance of ext3 for 
> 30 copies of the linux kernel source code using modern IDE drives and 
> modern processors on a dual-CPU box, so I don't think any amount of 
> improved scalability will make ext3 competitive with reiser4 for 
> performance usages.  
> 
> We haven't had anyone test performance using RAID yet for reiser4, that 
> could be fun.

I have a 14-drive hardware RAID array on an 8-proc box.  Is that the
kind of thing you want testing on?  If you want to send me some testing
scripts, I'll run them.  

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Dave Hansen
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