Posts in "file systems"

Re-comparing file systems

The previous attempt at comparing file systems based on the ability to allocate large files and zero them met with...

The fallocate() Story Continues

Making apps use the fallocate() syscall instead of writing zeros to a file is the preferred way to init a...

Comparison of File Systems And Speeding Up Applications

Update: I’ve done a newer article on this subject at http://log.amitshah.net/2009/04/re-comparing-file-systems.html that removes some of the deficiencies in the tests...

Making Suspend Safer for File Systems

I saw these File System Freezing patches that got merged into Linus’ tree yesterday and instantly thought that these patches...