Changing default root filesystem to ext4

Tixy tixy at yxit.co.uk
Wed Aug 17 11:56:27 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 11:48 +0100, James Tunnicliffe wrote:
> This is odd. When I performed tests btrfs and ext4 were both about the
> same speed for copying a mixture of large and small files to. I was
> testing them using my laptop card reader though. Tixy: Do you get
> similar btrfs vs ext4 results using the same card on an x86 host? Is
> your host 64 or 32 bit?

The results I have kicking around for tests on my PC, which uses a year
old 64bit kernel are:

ext4	363s
ext3	713s
ext2	279s
btrfs	208s

This was with a different SD card I think. I'll try and do more
like-for-like comparison.

-- 
Tixy




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