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Subject: Re: sysbench / fileio - Linux vs. FreeBSD
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On 6/5/10 12:26 AM, Adam PAPAI wrote:
> On 6/5/10 3:36 AM, Bruce Cran wrote:
>> Some quick tests show that ufs does do rather poorly on my system too. I have
>> the following filesystems setup:
>>
>> /var : ufs with softupdates
>> /usr/obj : zfs with checksums disabled
>> /usr/src : zfs with compression enabled
>> /home   : zfs with compression disabled and checksums enabled
>>
>> I ran a test with a blocksize of 8KB and 16 threads.
>>
>> /var       : 25.2MB/s
>> /usr/obj : 64.8MB/s
>> /usr/src : 386.3MB/s
>> /home   : 60.3MB/s
>>
>
> It seems I have to test it with zfs as well. Tomorrow I'm gonna test it.
>
>

Then the linux people will insist you use btrfs to compare apples to 
apples ... etc... etc..