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== File Systems - ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs ==

Comparision of ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem

[http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch]

[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435 Filesystem performance tweaking with XFS on Linux@Everything2.com]

[http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/File_System_Primer File System Primer - CoolSolutionsWiki]

Best benchmark comparison:
* [http://fsbench.netnation.com/ File System Benchmarks]

Summary:

Best bang for your buck - JFS or XFS:
While not the fastest file systems, both of them consistently perform close to EXT2, while using minimal CPU. XFS seems to be faster over a wider range of benchmarks, however it does use slightly more CPU than JFS. While JFS really starts to slow down with lots of files.

For I/O limited applications - ReiserFS v4, XFS, or ReiserFS v3:
This category isn't as clear cut as the others, it really depends on how many files, and what the size of the files are.

ReiserFS v4 is by far the fastest file system benchmarked here, but keep in mind it is still *EXPERIMENTAL*. However its performance in the Bonnie++ benchmark deserves recognition, up to 95% faster than EXT3, and 65% faster than ReiserFS v3 is mighty impressive. Though the IOZone benchmarks are not so convincing, there still seem to be some issues to work out. ReiserFS v4 will definiately be worth while keeping an eye on, especially considering some of the exciting new features it offers. Hopefully it gets included in Linus's v2.6 kernel tree.

If your application primarily uses lots of smaller files, ReiserFS v3 is the way to go. If your application uses more medium to larger files, and not a whole lot of them, XFS would most likely be a wise choice.

For CPU limited applications - JFS:
JFS is the clear winner here. If your looking for the absolute least CPU usage, JFS takes the cake.

CentOS 5 default kernel only supports ext3, not xfs, reiser, or jfs

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html

== XFS vs EXT4 ==

<pre>
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: XFS vs ext4
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:25:54 -0700
From: Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>
To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List <plug@plug.org>

Linux 2.6.28 is just out and it includes support for ext4 which is now
stable. Coincidentally, a new 500G drive is meandering its way to my
home as we speak. It will be used mostly for MythTV (with 2 HD tuners
and much transcoding, though I'm not I/O bound on the transcoding). I'm
an XFS fan, especially for multimedia like MythTV or audio/video
editing. But, ext4 looks to have many of the advantages of XFS. I
haven't done a point-by-point comparison since I'm not an expert on
filesystems, but the major points that they both have are being
extent-based, delayed allocation, fragmentation resistance and online
defragmentation, and some others probably.

XFS' big disadvantage from where I sit is that you can't shrink it, only
grow it. I have wished to shrink an XFS at least once before, so this
isn't a theoretical problem. Its big advantage is that it's stable and
proven.

ext4's big disadvantage is its newness. Stable or not it's much newer
than XFS and a .0 release at the moment. It's advantages include kernel
developer mindshare, eventualy mainstreamness, and ???. That's where you
come in. Does ext4 have any significant feature that XFS doesn't, that
mere mortals running MythTV might notice? Does ext4 support shrinkage?
Any thoughts?

Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net
</pre>

<pre>
My main reasons for using XFS over ext3 have been, again myth/video related,
when deleting large files. XFS is much quicker. Has anyone done much
benchmarking with ext4 yet? If not I have a spare 250GB drive I might throw
in and test some delete speeds, and other I/O related benchmarking on.
</pre>

== Convert ext3 to ext4 ==

tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/[DEVICE]
#e2fsck -fDC0 /dev/[DEVICE]
fsck -pf /dev/[DEVICE]
mount -t ext4 /dev/[DEVICE] /path

References:
* Ext4 Howto - Ext4 - Converting an ext3 filesystem to ext4 - https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4
* Linux Convert ext3 to ext4 File system - nixCraft - http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-convert-ext3-to-ext4-file-system.html

== keywords ==

linux filesystem filesystems

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