I am running a Linux from Scratch system and I just upgraded to Linux kernel 2.6.10-cko1 (first time away from a vanilla kernel) in order to try out Reiser4 but after formatting a drive I noticed it is slower here is the best test I could run
I have three hard drives so I took a file from one and copied it to the others and timed it source drive /dev/hda Reiser3 Western Digital 40gb 7200rpm target1 drive /dev/hdb Reiser4 Western Digital 80gb 7200rpm target2 drive /dev/sda Reiser3 Seagate 160gb 7200rpm (SATA but still same rpm as rest so it should be the same) time cp ~/800mb.file /target1 real 0m41.409s user 0m0.010s sys 0m4.364s time cp ~/800mb.file /target2 real 0m38.318s user 0m0.017s sys 0m5.627s What formatting command would I use the get best speed for the following situation capturing raw uncompressed 720x480x29.97 video from my pci tv card. The best I got with reiserfs v3 was 640x480x29.97 and it would end up making a 50gb file in 64 minutes.
