Today Nikolai I. has sent to me this excellent article, which covers complete Linux filesystems’ benchmark.
I post it here for two main reasons:
1) To have it stored for the future (I decided to post all such useful material here)
2) To all my friends, who take care reading my blog aware of it.
The general quote, which this article leads to, is: do not use ext3 filesystem. Ouch, this is my filesystem at home :(. It seems I must change it soon!
The tests are made with linux-2.4.26
In 2.6 there a lot of speedups for ext3, may be the test should be made with something current.