Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-24 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> I make it a habit of eating my own words if I screw up. If the results >> seen on Ubuntu by one test hold up, it might have a large increase in >> large writes (but nothing in large reads). >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Scott Silva wrote: > on 1-23-2009 1:19 PM Ashley M. Kirchner spake the following: >> Quoting Florin Andrei : >> >>> I like the stability of Ext3, but in terms of speed it's not the >>> sharpest lightbulb in the toolshed. >> Isn't that supposed to be "not the fastest lawnmower in the toolshed" ? > O

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-23-2009 1:19 PM Ashley M. Kirchner spake the following: > Quoting Florin Andrei : > >> I like the stability of Ext3, but in terms of speed it's not the >> sharpest lightbulb in the toolshed. > > Isn't that supposed to be "not the fastest lawnmower in the toolshed" ? Or " the sharpest crayon

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Quoting Florin Andrei : > I like the stability of Ext3, but in terms of speed it's not the > sharpest lightbulb in the toolshed. Isn't that supposed to be "not the fastest lawnmower in the toolshed" ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: > I like the stability of Ext3, but in terms of speed it's not the > sharpest lightbulb in the toolshed. ROTFL: "sharpest lightbulb in the toolshed." -- Paul "the only sharp lightbulb is a broken one" Heinlein __

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > I make it a habit of eating my own words if I screw up. If the results > seen on Ubuntu by one test hold up, it might have a large increase in > large writes (but nothing in large reads). > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_ext4&num=1 Rig

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 23 January 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > >> Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. > >> I am moving/copying image files lately 8G

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >>> Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. >>> I am moving/copying image files lately 8G file and it is slow. I am >>> hoping that ext4 really speeds that up. >> I don't think it will speed things up much. 8GB files are mostly >> hardwa

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
"Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks&num=1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. >> I am moving/copying image files lately 8G file and it is slow. I am >> hoping that ext4 really speeds that

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > I disagree. On most raid-controllers we use XFS has a significant advantage > over Ext3 when it comes to large sequential writes. Ext3 gets nowhere near > the bare metal performance. > > So, in short, I think it will be interesting to see how Ext4 performs for > thi

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 January 2009, nate wrote: > Renato de Oliveira Diogo wrote: > > Hi; > > > > Do you test in other file system? Like xfs or jfs? > > You can use the "time" command to get the exate time: > > # time cp /pathsource/file8g /pathdest/ > > > > Post here yours results. > > I like to use rsy

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-21 Thread nate
Renato de Oliveira Diogo wrote: > Hi; > > Do you test in other file system? Like xfs or jfs? > You can use the "time" command to get the exate time: > # time cp /pathsource/file8g /pathdest/ > > Post here yours results. I like to use rsync with --progress so it shows realtime updates on the status

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-21 Thread Renato de Oliveira Diogo
Hi; Do you test in other file system? Like xfs or jfs? You can use the "time" command to get the exate time: # time cp /pathsource/file8g /pathdest/ Post here yours results. []s Renato de Oliveira Diogo Bacharel em Ciência da Computação UNESP - B

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. > I am moving/copying image files lately 8G file and it is slow. I am > hoping that ext4 really speeds that up. I don't think it will speed things up much. 8GB files are mos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-20 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:33 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > Will the boot partition still be ext3 and then have to mount the ext4 > filesystem? Yes, but you wouldn't gain much by making /boot ext4. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed signature.asc Description: Th

[CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. I am moving/copying image files lately 8G file and it is slow. I am hoping that ext4 really speeds that up. My question is: will we be able to boot ext4 file systems? Will the boot partition still be ext3 and then have to moun