linux-ext4 - Re: getdents - ext4 vs btrfs performance

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Date:	Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:42:44 -0500
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	lczerner@...hat.com
Subject: Re: getdents - ext4 vs btrfs performance

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 03:07:45PM +0100, Jacek Luczak wrote:

[ btrfs faster than ext for find and cp -a ]

> 2012/2/29 Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@...il.com>:
> 
> I will try to answer the question from the broken email I've sent.
> 
> @Lukas, it was always a fresh FS on top of LVM logical volume. I've
> been cleaning cache/remounting to sync all data before (re)doing
> tests.

The next step is to get cp -a out of the picture, in this case you're
benchmarking both the read speed and the write speed (what are you
copying to btw?).

Using tar cf /dev/zero <some_dir> is one way to get a consistent picture
of the read speed.

You can confirm the theory that it is directory order causing problems
by using acp to read the data.

http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/acp/acp-0.6.tar.bz2

-chris

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