These are some rough performance comparisons of GFS and it's rival
filesystems. These numbers aren't very up to date as some improvements have
been made to deallocation and such since these. 


----- Forwarded message from Ken Preslan <kpreslan at mail.sistina.com> -----


Reiserfs:
jubjub:kpreslan:40:time tar xf ~/kpreslan.tar 
4.460u 98.090s 2:45.91 61.8%    0+0k 0+0io 391072pf+0w
jubjub:kpreslan:76:time tar cf /dev/null kpreslan
2.480u 4.580s 0:51.57 13.6%     0+0k 0+0io 156pf+0w
jubjub:kpreslan:86:time fast_rm-r kpreslan > /dev/null
4.710u 23.200s 0:29.63 94.1%    0+0k 0+0io 618pf+0w


Ext2:
jubjub:kpreslan:112:time tar xf ~/kpreslan.tar 
4.010u 51.450s 4:02.06 22.9%    0+0k 0+0io 391088pf+0w
jubjub:kpreslan:122:time tar cf /dev/null kpreslan
2.020u 3.810s 1:20.27 7.2%      0+0k 0+0io 172pf+0w
jubjub:kpreslan:133:time fast_rm-r kpreslan > /dev/null
3.940u 7.200s 2:17.39 8.1%      0+0k 0+0io 622pf+0w


GFS:
jubjub:kpreslan:16:time tar xf ~/kpreslan.tar 
4.480u 101.790s 12:36.30 14.0%  0+0k 0+0io 391072pf+0w
jubjub:kpreslan:33:time tar cf /dev/null kpreslan
2.920u 15.010s 1:51.70 16.0%    0+0k 0+0io 152pf+0w
jubjub:kpreslan:45:time fast_rm-r kpreslan > /dev/null
4.980u 31.090s 41:15.54 1.4%    0+0k 0+0io 643pf+0w

----- End forwarded message -----

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