![](https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/25bbc96d9c53647354cb724e744b2222.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de> wrote:
XFS is _extremely_ slow when creating/deleting files, AFAIR something about factor 100! worse than the ext family. That's why I would not used it for (rsnapshot) backups and most other use cases.
I think you recall from 2003 not 2013!
No, from 2011, kernel 2.6.37. Even I re-validated my results using 3.0.80-52, which is the up-to-date kernel of SLE11.
I consider it my own huge mistake that I've started using xfs at all without benchmarking before. It was a lot work to migrate back and there are still some xfs partitions left which are as slow as measured in 2011.
You might want to read http://lwn.net/Articles/476263/ Per it, the last of major changes to make file creation / deletion went into the 3.3 kernel. Even openSUSE 12.2 uses the 3.4 kernel, so openSUSE has had the improvements in both of the last 2 major releases and of course will have them in 13.1 due out next month. Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org