Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 another thread
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:51:35
Message-Id: 87bptol86c.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread by Albert Hopkins
1 Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> writes:
2
3 > Depending on your usage you might see significant improvements or hardly
4 > any at all. Best way to know for sure is to try it out. Note however
5 > that on ext4 journal checksums are *on* by default (and off on ext3
6 > iirc). So when you are comparing performance you should make that value
7 > the same for both for a fair comparison.
8
9 What about comparisons to reiserfs... any comments on that. Far as
10 I've experienced it with reiserfs... it puts ext3 in the shade in most
11 ways.