Re: Reiser vs EXT3

Kevin Brosius (cobra@compuserve.com)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:51:46 -0500


> David C. Hansen wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> Yes, that would be cool.
>
> Green, please respond to this email with details for him.

I have access to a 3 drive hw RAID system with dual processors if you'd
like some more testing. Do you have info on recommended stripe sizes
vs. performance for Reiser using RAID?

-- 
Kevin
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