Which is Faster

[APwrs]

I was curious... which is faster, ext3, or ReiserFS with notail?

[timothykaine]

I dont remember where I saw it, maybe here, but I believe the general consensus was that ReiserFS 3 is faster with small files, and ext3 is better with large files.

In the overall average, they ended up being nearly the same speed, with a slight advantage for ReiserFS 3.

In another comparison between ext3 and ReiserFS 4, Reiser rocked ext's world, but ReiserFS 4 is nowhere near stable yet from my experiences.

I use ReiserFS 3.6 on all my machines.

About notail... I dont even know. heh

[APwrs]

Thank you. I was installing beta 3 of Mandrake 10.2 yesterday, and I saw that the default filesystem choice was ext3, when on Mandrake it used to be ReiserFS.

From my minimal testing last night, formatting the drive took much less time with ReiserFS than with ext3, but installation seemed to take less with ext3 than with ReiserFS... about five or six minutes as compared to 10.

However, once the system was up and running, it was hard to tell which one was actually faster. Some of the old benchmarks over at ReiserFS's website say that Reiser3 is faster than ext3, however, the newest benchmark that was created for Reiser4 shows Reiser4 as being faster than everything, but ext3 being faster than Reiser3.

I'm just wondering if perhaps ext3 has improved its performance to where right now it's faster than Reiser3.

[Icarus]

XFS :D

[APwrs]

So far, it looks like the majority of the people (a whole three) think that ReiserFS is faster than ext3.

[Icarus]

Enough beating around the bush :)

http://www.namesys.com/benchmarks.html

http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html

^benchmarks ;) ^

[psych-major]

For my cool work project (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=138151) I used ReiserFS. It screamed on Solid State Disk!

[APwrs]

So it looks like the fastest filesystem would either be ReiserFS or JFS.