Journaling File System

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:56:22AM +0100, JB wrote:
> On 3/3/06, ssevengor at tai.com.tr <ssevengor at tai.com.tr> wrote:
> > Don't hesitate Ext3!
> >
> > Here explanation;
> > http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/
> 
> Now, that is a pretty old whitepaper on ext3. There has been quite
> alot of development on journalling file systems over the year.
> 
> A nice overview is here:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Features

That document is a bit outdated and it's flat out wrong in places.  

Check out http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html for one person's
recent set of benchmark runs.  You'll see that he finds ext3 to be
comparable to other file systems and in some tests, ext3 kicks some
serious reiser butt.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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