Benchmark using bonnie-1.2 (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/bonnie/) Hardware: Duron 700 mhz, Ram 128 MB, ATA66 IDE drive 20 GB The test partition is /dev/hda10, 3.6 GG, mounted on /testfs Software: Slackware 8.0, kernel is stock 2.4.14 + patch ext3-2.4-0.9.15-2414 e2fsprogs 1.25, mkreiserfs 3.x.0j ext3 bultin and reiserfs-3.6 (only for 2.4.14) in module Configuration: hdparm -d1 -c1 -m8 -u1 /dev/hda reisersfs: mkreiserfs mount -t reiserfs reisersfs/nt: mkreiserfs mount -t reiserfs -o notail ext2: mke2fs mount ext3/od : mke2fs -j mount ext3/wb : mke2fs -j mount -o data=writeback journal size is 32 MB for both ext3 and reiserfs During the bench, nothing else is running except syslogd, klogd, inetd, atd and the kernel :). Command: Bonnie -s 512 -d /testfs | ---Sequential Output (nosync)--- ---Sequential Input-- --Rnd Seek- | -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --04k (03)- Filesystem | K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU -----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ext2 | 6561 98.5 24151 13.4 8808 7.6 5393 84.8 22092 9.8 130.9 1.3 -----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ext3/od | 6389 99.0 24968 22.6 10952 9.2 5216 82.6 21440 10.7 122.1 1.4 -----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ext3/wb | 6235 97.7 22753 21.7 7580 6.7 5452 86.4 21874 11.1 130.3 1.4 -----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reiserfs | 6278 98.7 24013 25.7 8187 7.1 5314 84.5 20561 11.6 132.9 2.0 -----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reiserfs/nt| 6283 98.4 21967 23.5 8220 7.4 5174 82.4 19849 11.5 133.5 1.9 -----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------