sd performance tests, bonnie++ with different filesystems.

Gennady Kupava gb at bsdmn.com
Sat Jun 26 11:19:34 CEST 2010


Hi, 

> XFS is not prone to power failures anymore or it's not an issue on uSD
(without big cache as normal drives)?

i thought it is same to btrfs? i am using xfs on desktop for storing
data like films, audio and other big and non-critical data, have no
problems for 5 years. i've heard about 0 files, after power failure,
which were somehow intelligently described (and seem fixed
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Why_do_I_see_binary_NULLS_in_some_files_after_recovery_when_I_unplugged_the_power.3F 
) i think this is only on writes. i took that into accout, using to
for / and /usr, which are changed only on system upgrades. why do you
think xfs is less proof to to power failures that others?

>> - flash dying

>no big problem on replacable uSD

yeah, it's much better to replace sd once in year for example but have +30% r/w speed during year.

>> - problem with bootloaders

>if you load kernel from different partition then I don't see any problem
with brtfs rootfs.

yeah, I used ext2 for /boot -> uboot is happy.

i even used GPT for fun, so finally my partitions numbered 1,2,3,4,... without 'extendeds'

so far, i didn't notice some significant difference except it only fsck /boot for a long time.

Gennady




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