On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: >> Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. >> I am moving/copying image files lately 8G file and it is slow. I am >> hoping that ext4 really speeds that up. > > I don't think it will speed things up much. 8GB files are mostly > hardware throughput and ext3/4 will actually be slower because the > journalling etc are to make it more robust but at a speed cost. You > would probably see better speed by going to ext2. I make it a habit of eating my own words if I screw up. If the results seen on Ubuntu by one test hold up, it might have a large increase in large writes (but nothing in large reads). http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_ext4&num=1 -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"