On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > > This heavily depends on the FS you're using in Linux, though. The last time > I tested ReiserFS 3.6 totally beat the heck out of BFS. The comparison > between Linux and Haiku is not very fair, since Linux is generally more > optimized and faster, but one can do the test in Haiku (at least an "svn > stat"). IIRC, the measurements indicated ReiserFS to be almost twice as > fast as BFS. > > Interestingly the results of a second (i.e. cached) run were very much in > favor for BFS. Might be file vs. block cache related or our BFS > implementation is just faster than that of ReiserFS. reiserfs has a big kernel lock