Fellow XFS users,
At the bottom of this email you will find a forwarded message from Vishal
Agarwal. I got this in the ReiserFS mailing list and thought maybe someone
here has nice answers for this fellow. In particular as of writing nobody
in the ReiserFS list has replied.
Vishal, maybe you'd be interested in helping out with something in the XFS
todo list? There's a lot that can be given thought to help unload Steve
Lord and the other SGI folks. I can't quite remember where that todo list
is, but I'm sure it's somewhere in the XFS site.
As to benchmarks, you can find a number. In particular the ReiserFS
website has at least one using Reiser's mongo.pl benchmark tool. It's a
little outdated as that's as of kernel 2.4.5 and we're now up to
2.4.11-pre3.
XFS is significantly slow with massive deletes of small files (maybe you
can help tweak this? I'm sure the XFS developers would love to give you
starting tips if you're willing to do so), but otherwise you will see that
it's performance is good especially as file size increases.
Hoping you will help develop what has become my filesystem of choice.
--> Jijo
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:04:28 +0530
From: Vishal Agarwal <vishal_agarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "reiserfs-list@xxxxxxxxxxx" <reiserfs-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [reiserfs-list] XFS & ReiserFS
Hi,
I'm a final year student, doing my masters in computer science from
Bombay University, India. I'm doing my industrial training at Persistent
Systems Pvt. Ltd. (persistent.co.in), and the platforms I work on are IRIX
and C/Objective C (and X/motif sometimes). I wonder if I could contribute
towards the development of any module of ReiserFS. I have a good experience
in C, though I hardly know C++ and I'm currently honing my objective C
skills.
I have the following queries:
1. I want to know what are the major design differences between XFS (from
SGI) and ReiserFS?
2. Where are the design documentation kept for ReiserFS? XFS has a VERY
good set of documents for each module in PDF format on SGI's site.
3. Are there any comparision results availbale between XFS and ReiserFS?
Thanks, waiting for your reply.
Best Regards,
-Vishal Agarwal
P.S. I'm sorry for sending the same mail to hans previously.
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