File formats anybody

[Gerald Combs]

On 23 May 2003, Adrian Gordinier wrote:

> I was just wondering what kind of preferences of file formats you guys
> out there have and why? It seems lots of distros I have tried default to
> ext3. Compared to others such as ReiserFS and XFS is ext3 faster or
> slower or more/less reliable??? Maybe I should also be asking which
> formats are better for a server or a workstation.

I recently had a chance to test Ext3, ReiserFS, and JFS under Linux along
with UFS2 under FreeBSD.  I used NetApp's Postmark for testing:

    http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/postmark.html

JFS was significantly faster than the rest.  I can dig up the raw numbers
if anyone is interested.