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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-03-21 21:06:00
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Hi Szaka, On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > I've made some cloning tests with SystemRescueCD 0.2.12_rc1. Is this a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? (Just curious.) > Source and destination partitions were 10 GB. Source had 5 GB data > scattered around the disk. Destination was empty. Both partitions were on > the same disk. In case of NTFS, I losetup a big file on a rw mounted NTFS. > 'raw' is a plain cloning between two partitions (so no filesystem on the > destination partition). Results, > > ---------------------------------------- > dest fs user system CPU% real > ---------------------------------------- > raw 1.55 15:02 3 9:04.56 > ext2 1.75 18.16 3 9:11.25 > ext3 1.50 21.51 4 9:23.19 > XFS 1.63 21.19 3 9:31.92 > NTFS 1.61 49.85 8 9:40.18 > ReiserFS 1.65 24.83 4 10:10.39 > JFS 1.82 29.87 4 12:30.33 That is quite intersting! I wonder how much better NTFS would do if the other fs were running over loopmount, too. I guess only ext2/3 and XFS matter as even with the loop NTFS is faster than Reiser and JFS. (-: Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
