Great Filesystem Shoot-out

[Tyler Strickland]

On 09/02/2005 10:08 AM, Grant Robinson wrote:
> Ok, here is something fun to demonstrate file system performance.
> 
> Here is a python script that does 10000 directory creations followed by 
> 10000 directory deletions.  It then does 10000 file creations, followed 
> by a five character write, followed by closing the file.  It then 
> deletes the 10000 files.
> 
> To participate, run this python script on your machine (and we can 
> include other OS's, including windows and OS X in this) and then report 
> back to the list with the following information:
> 
> OS and version
> filesystem type (ext2, ext3, NTFS, etc.) and whether it is journaled
> machine specs (specifically processor speed, disk size, disk interface, 
> and disk rotational speed)
> the time spit out by the script
> 
> As an example, here are my laptop results:
> 
> Mac OS X 10.3
> HFS+ w/Journaling
> Powerbook G4, ATA-133, 60 GB, 4800 RPM
> 29.348
> 
> If you have multiple filesystem types on the same machine, try them all 
> and report back with the results.
> 
> (P.S. I would recommend putting the script in it's own newly created 
> directory)
> 
> Grant
> 
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Debian Unstable
Linux tyler 2.6.11-1-k7 #1 Mon Jun 20 21:26:23 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
ext3 (journaling)
Athlon 64 3000+ (socket 939), Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA 133, 120 GB, 7200 RPM
Result: 8.889556

# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
  multcount    =  0 (off)
  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
  unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
  using_dma    =  1 (on)
  keepsettings =  0 (off)
  readonly     =  0 (off)
  readahead    = 256 (on)
  geometry     = 65535/16/63, sectors = 240121728, start = 0

I'll try and get a Windows XP result from the same machine later.

--Tyler