This newly-published white paper on sun.com explores the performance characteristics of Solaris ZFS and the ext3 file system through IOzone, BenchW and Postmark benchmark testing.
For the conditions tested, Solaris ZFS outperforms the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ext3 file system for many workloads, especially Postmark and relational database indexed queries. In other cases, Solaris ZFS exhibits comparable performance but does not require the performance or data integrity trade-offs that are inherent in the ext3 file systems, when running in ordered and writeback modes.
Conclusions drawn suggest that Solaris ZFS provides the same or greater data protection as the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ext3 file system running in journalled mode. However, the ext3 file system often delivers the lowest performance, while Solaris ZFS can provide equal or greater performance than the ext3 file system operating in the ordered or writeback mode.
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White Paper: Solaris ZFS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ext3 File System Performance
Posted by : Dr. Root | 18 June, 2007 | Published in
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