ext4 slower than ext3
I have a 6 disk machine, i am using FC12, i created a software raid 5 device /dev/md1
i formatted it Code:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md1 Code:
/dev/md1 on /usr/local type ext4 (rw,noatime,user_xattr) Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/test.out bs=512k count=20k I then unmounted and did mkfs.ext3 /dev/md1 and mounted again like so: Code:
/dev/md1 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw,noatime,user_xattr) Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/test.out bs=512k count=20k I guess I will stick with ext3 However, I would be very interested to know *why* the newer filesystem is slower, and by so much! many thanks |
"Newer" isn't always "better".
And "better" isn't always "faster" ;) Here's an excellent article benchmarking ext4 performance, and listing some of the benefits of ext4 over other filesystems: Real World Benchmarks of the Ext4 Filesystem |
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