Benchmarking Filesystems: JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, ext3

Benchmarking Filesystems: JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, ext3
Posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on 2004-05-10 17:41:08 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"The conclusion is obvious by the "Total Time For All Benchmarks Test." The best journaling file system to choose based upon these results would be: JFS, ReiserFS or XFS depending on your needs and what types of files you are dealing with. I was quite surprised how slow ext3 was overall, as many distributions use this file system as their default file system. Overall, one should choose the best file system based upon the properties of the files they are dealing with for the best performance possible!" Read the whole article at the LinuxGazette.