Feature Request

[Samuel Flory]

Samuel Flory wrote:

> Ethan Bonick wrote:
>
>>
>> I was talking about admin config tools not install time config 
>> options. I
>> just want to have more than one choice when installing, you know 
>> something
>> like two or three choices. But then how many do you stop at to not have
>> too many but be enough to please most? It's a very complicated issue. 
>> I am
>> fine with ext3 being the default journal.
>
>
>  I for one am not okay with ext3 as the default, and only journalling 
> files system.  Let's face it the default ext3 journaling mode is 
> extremely slow on writes.  As you can see below reiserfs is x2 as fast 
> on writes, and x1.5 as fast on reads.  Writeback mode isn't much 
> better.  And ext3 is even worse on random file system access.
>
Here is xfs vs ext3 which tends to be even worse for ext3.   As reiserfs 
really isn't very good with sequential reads and writes.  (Still try to 
find my reiserfs run with a 3G file size.)


+ rm -f bigfile
+ sync
+ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024000 count=3072
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out

real    1m55.554s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m11.720s
+ sync

real    0m15.709s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.470s
+ dd of=/dev/null if=bigfile bs=1024000
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out

real    0m54.913s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m15.140s
+ sync

real    0m0.015s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.010s
+ du -sh bigfile
3.0G    bigfile

ext3:
+ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024000 count=3072
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out

real    2m15.430s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m20.900s
+ sync

real    0m32.166s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.190s
+ dd of=/dev/null if=bigfile bs=1024000
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out

real    0m54.577s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m16.070s


ext2 in writeback mode
+ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024000 count=3072
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out

real    2m12.781s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m20.080s
+ sync

real    0m25.971s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.300s
+ dd of=/dev/null if=bigfile bs=1024000
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out

real    0m55.136s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m15.430s
+ sync

real    0m0.011s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s
+ du -sh bigfile
3.0G    bigfile

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