A bit more clarification

["Dubravko Markic" <dmarkic@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello again,

      

I just want to add to my previous mail and clarify a few things. I am testing different filesystems on the linux machine (reiser, jfs, xfs, ext2 etc....). What i have done is that i have created a large binary file (2Gb) and i have written a program which reads through the file and records each individual read in miliseconds. This is for the purpose of trying to figure out which system is best suited for video-on-demand task. Now i have done my homework on each filesystem, including xfs, and i know that xfs is uniqe in that it has a real-time section for faster data processing.

 

As i previously wrote to you in my first mail, i am wondering if this real-time section can be put to the test in the linux environment. I have already created and mounted xfs with a data and a real-time section. But then what? I mean what can i do with the real-time section. I read somewhere that files created/moved/copied in the real-time section have to be done in some "complicated" and tedious way. But that it is not possbile to do this in linux? Is that true? I am left with only being able to test the data section of the xfs system? Thanks for all your help in advance. I hope it's a bit easier to answer my questions now that you have a bit more input from my side.

 

Regards

Dubo