On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Dirk Müller
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
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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
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Jan Kara