> Hello All
>
> Just wanted to gather opinions on what file system has the best balance between performance and
> reliability when used on a quad processor machine running SuSE64. Thanks
>
> DAve
I was reading the article 'Behind the ALTIX 3000' in the Feb. 2003 Linux Journal, and it mentioned
the following paper which compares Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS:
Filesystem Performance and Scalability in Linux 2.4.17
Originally published in Proceedings of the FREENIX Track:
2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/papers/filesystem-perf-tm.pdf
Quoting the abtract:
Although the best-performing filesystem varies depending on the benchmark and system used, some
larger trends are evident in the data. On the smaller systems, the best-performing file system is
often Ext2, Ext3 or ReiserFS. For the larger systems and higher loads, XFS can provide the best
overall performance.
George Essig