Slower performance with ext4
Ong Raphael
raphaelong1996 at yahoo.com.sg
Mon Nov 2 06:47:31 UTC 2009
So, is the conclusion that ext4 sucks and ext3 rocks in performance wise?
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From: Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, 2 November 2009 1:49:48
Subject: Re: Slower performance with ext4
Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>> Journaling only for metadata is not 'as much journaling as any other
>> canditates.' You cannot say metadata journaling only as equivalent to
>> the data and metadata journaling that is possible with ext3. XFS's
>> journaling only provides filesystem metadata consistency which is why
>> you get files full of NULLs after a crash/power out. MTAs rely on fsync
>> calls and how a filesystem behaves in regards to fsync requests is the
>> real determiner of whether there is a data guarantee or not. XFS does
>> not provide data guarantee. It, at best, provides a metadata guarantee.
>> XFS should not be used for mta queues unless it is in conjunction with
>> hardware raid that has a bbu cache. XFS is best suited for streaming
>> applications where the data loss is tolerated.
>>
>>
>>
> Sorry, but that is completely incorrect. Applications that use fsync are
> safe with any filesystem - fsync forces the modified buffers to *disk*,
> so all discussions about os and filesystem caching are irrelivant[1].
>
Yes...where *disk* = journal. Which for JFS, XFS and ext3 data=ordered
means metadata only. Only ext3 data=journal guarantees data and
metadata. Feel free to get (whoever filesystem developer) to confirm for
me because you won't get any other answer than what I have just posted.
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