[ale] Comparing EXT4 and JFS

[Greg Freemyer]

2009/2/4 Kenneth Price <neth.price at gmail.com>:
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>> Seems like XFS used to take a couple minutes to do the delete!!!
>> Obviously not a good choice of filesystem if you plan to do a lot of
>> kernel development.
>
> WHAT?  In my real world experiences XFS is *much* faster than EXT3 at
> deleting large files - as well as large directories of small files.  Is your
> comment from personal experience?  Using a 2.6.X kernel?
>
> -Ken

Okay, I just tested this:

Using 2.6.22 on Suse 10.3 machine.

I made a copy of linux source tree (cp --archive /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.19-0.2 .)

Then I immediately did a timed delete:

time rm -rf linux-2.6.22.19-0.2

Ext3:  1.1 seconds
XFS: 1 min 6.9 seconds

You may want to double check your working assumptions.

Greg
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