Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Benchmarking ReiserFS, ext2, XFS

[Hans Reiser <reiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Mason wrote:

> > Thanks Chris, I totally agree, and at the moment I am much too busy to
> > spend time in a performance competition. I should also state that I have
> > never regarded the different filesystem on Linux as being in direct
> > competition with each other, there will always be benefits to using each
> > different filesystem for their strong points. Plus having several
> > filesystems under active development means that there will be a tendency
> > for the developers to make theirs the best, the implementations improve,
> > and everyone wins.

reiser4's architecture will be strongly influenced by the XFS pioneered delayed
allocation concept, and I would like to thank the XFS team for aggressively
ensuring that I understood the benefits of it.

Hans