Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (776 mails)

[Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Dirk Müller <dirk@xxxxxxxx> 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.

Why do you say that?
I'm of the impression that ext4 is - highly - recommended over ext3.


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Jon
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