Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, XFS, and EXT4 compared

2007-08-30 Thread Cyril Plisko
Jeffrey, it would be interesting to see your zpool layout info as well. It can significantly influence the results obtained in the benchmarks. On 8/30/07, Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lot of people whispering zfs in my virtual ear these days, and at the same time I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, XFS, and EXT4 compared

2007-08-30 Thread mike
On 8/29/07, Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lot of people whispering zfs in my virtual ear these days, and at the same time I have an irrational attachment to xfs based entirely on its lack of the 32000 subdirectory limit. I'm not afraid of ext4's newness, since really a

ZFS, XFS, and EXT4 compared

2007-08-30 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I have a lot of people whispering zfs in my virtual ear these days, and at the same time I have an irrational attachment to xfs based entirely on its lack of the 32000 subdirectory limit. I'm not afraid of ext4's newness, since really a lot of that stuff has been in Lustre for years. So

Re: ZFS, XFS, and EXT4 compared

2007-08-30 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 08:37 -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:16:51 -0700 Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tastic.brillig.org/~jwb/zfs-xfs-ext4.html FFSB: Could you send the patch to fix FFSB Solaris build? I should probably update the Sourceforge

Re: ZFS, XFS, and EXT4 compared

2007-08-30 Thread Eric Sandeen
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 13:57 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: barrier seems to hurt badly on xfs, too. Note: barrier is off by default on ext[34], so if you want apples to apples there, you need to change one or the other filesystem's mount options. If your write cache is

Re: ZFS, XFS, and EXT4 compared

2007-08-30 Thread Jose R. Santos
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:52:10 -0700 Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 08:37 -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:16:51 -0700 Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tastic.brillig.org/~jwb/zfs-xfs-ext4.html FFSB: Could you

Re: ZFS, XFS, and EXT4 compared

2007-08-30 Thread Nathan Scott
[culled zfs-discuss from CC, since its subscriber-only] On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:20 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:07:46PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: To improve metadata performance, you have many options with XFS (which ones are useful depends on the type of