[haiku] Re: GSoC 2009

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

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