On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Dirk Müller <dirk@dmllr.de> wrote:
Besides Scalability there are other attributes where btrfs exceeds other filesystems.
Regarding the scalability part, lets not compare something from 3 years ago, lets compare the 13.1 kernel, kernel 3.11.0. Ext4 has had pretty nice improvements in 3.11 regarding scalability, see http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1307.0/00286.html for details.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_311_filesystems
You might or not like this benchmark, but the headline is pretty clear: "EXT4 wins".
And, they didn't check, but at least for database workloads ext3 beats ext4. Do you have any data to share? Preferably also with
[trimmed CC list a bit] On Wed 11-09-13 14:52:45, Claudio Freire wrote: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org. I'd be interested in tracking that down because I (and I believe other ext4 developers as well) am not aware of this. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org