Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

[Wojciech Puchar]

>
> Win2003 R2		NTFS	RAID10-15	87	25	113	6425	11990
> Ubuntu Server 7.10	ext3	RAID10-15	129	60	167	36114	72562
> Ubuntu Server 7.10	JFS	RAID10-15	131	64	167	6638	4855
> Ubuntu Server 7.10	Reiser3	RAID10-15	130	60	159	30307	35101
> Ubuntu Server 7.10	XFS	RAID10-15	104	62	164	39	10
> FreeBSD 7		UFS+SU	RAID10-15	109	43	111	36551	99999
> FreeBSD 7		UFS+GJ	RAID10-15	50	28	103	52460	46604
> FreeBSD 7		ZFS	RAID10-15	95	63	180	40522	20260
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> The first three columns describe the system & RAID (e.g. RAID10-15 means
> RAID10 created from 4 15 kRPM drives), the next three are
> write/rewrite/read speed in MB/s, the last two are random files
> created/deleted. I hope the mailer doesn't destroy the formatting too

could you compare raw device speed between linux and FreeBSD

it looks like there is driver problem - low linear speed.

> ZFS was very good, but not so much when compared to Linux file systems,

ZFS in your benchmart is similar to UFS.