EXT vs XFS at 80% filled filesystem

Michael Monnerie michael.monnerie at is.it-management.at
Thu Apr 30 12:28:38 CDT 2009


On Donnerstag 30 April 2009 Milind Dumbare wrote:
> I have heard of XFS's performance is not good as compared to EXT3
> when the filesystem(disk) is 80% filled with data. Is it true? I have
> went through lots of performance documents of both XFS and EXT3 but
> could not find such performance benchmarking (for 80% full
> filesystems).
>
> Any numbers or pointers to other documents are appreciated.

Never heard that before. Where did you hear this?

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