Performance numbers for a DELL R710

[Martin Hepworth]

2009/6/4 Steve Freegard <steve.freegard at fsl.com>:
> Zaeem Arshad wrote:
>> I have had good results so far with XFS. I am willing to give NILFS a
>> spin. Anyone else can vouch for it?
>
> Being as it's not even properly in the kernel yet - I doubt it.  It will
> be in 2.6.30 when it is released.
>
>> Every last bit of performance that can be extracted from a system matters.
>
> I rate reliability over performance - particularly on a production mail
> system and especially when it comes to filesystems.  Which is exactly
> why I'd stick with ext3 on Linux.
>
> Regards,
> Steve.
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No to mention Ext3 writes the data anywhere upto 30 secs AFTER the
metadata. I've seen several machines get in nasty state when this has
happened and the filesystem got itself in a real mess. Works fine most
of the time, but when goes wrong, boy it goes wrong.

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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK