On 2004-05-12 00:45:10 +0100 Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com> wrote:
http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html Interesting, but hardly conclusive and the test doesn't take into account how different filesystems scale differently on higher/lower performance hardware.
I was surprised that there was only a "total time" used to make the conclusion and no weighted average based on relative frequency of the different acts (remove/copy/write and so on) tested.
This simply confirms what I had suspected for a long time, the choice of filesystem depends on your specific needs.
It will always be so, I suspect. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing