Ted Ts'o: EXT4 Within Striking Distance Of XFS
There's just two months to go until the annual Linux.Conf.Au conference, which in 2011 is taking place in Brisbane, Australia. Ted Ts'o, the maintainer of the EXT4, will be speaking at the 2011 Linux.Conf.Au and he's just shared his "money shot" from his presentation about this evolutionary file-system building atop EXT2/EXT3. New benchmarking results from HP's Eric Whitney on a large multi-core system indicate that "[EXT4 is] now within striking distance of XFS."
This round of EXT4 file-system testing against XFS was not like any of our many file-system benchmarks from a desktop or netbook / notebook perspective, but was done with a 48-core AMD system with a 24 SAS-disk hardware RAID array providing a seven Terabyte volume and 256GB of system memory. While the HP Linux file-system test results still show the XFS file-system as leading, when using EXT4 with no journaling and the out-of-tree "use the bio layer directly" patches, the results for this evolutionary file-system are quite close. The XFS file-system generally has performed well on hardware like this where the EXT file-systems have not scaled quite as well, but with EXT4 things are changing.
also: I have the money shot for my LCA presentation
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