On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 04:42:25PM -0400, vg_ us wrote: > From: "Bron Gondwana" <br...@fastmail.fm> > >I'm honestly more interested in maildir type workload too, spool doesn't > >get enough traffic usually to care about IO. > > will postmark transaction test do? here - > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2639_fs&num=1 > stop arguing - I think postmark transaction was the only relevant > test XFS was loosing badly - not anymore... > search www.phoronix.com for other tests - there is one for every > kernel version.
Sorry, I don't change filesystems every week just because the latest shiny got a better benchmark. I need a pretty compelling reason, and what's most impressive there is how shockingly bad XFS was before 2.6.39. I don't think there's many stable distributions out there shipping 2.6.39 yet, which means you're bleeding all sorts of edges to get a faster filesystem... ... and you're storing your customers' email on that. But - you have convinced me that it may be time to take another round of tests - particularly since we've added another couple of database files since my last test, which will increase the linear IO slightly on regular use. It may be worth comparing again. But I will still advise ext4 to anyone who asks right now. Bron.
