What kind of experiences have people had with the new IceFS? I read everything I could on the author's website but haven't found much else beyond this. Thanks.

I switched of IceFS after my SFS partition crashed and could not be salvaged anymore. So far it has been reliable and some are sayig it's also fast, but with a G3@600 I can't see much of a difference. I trust this fs cause I see that there is active development around it.

I've used it, but I started getting crashes that went away after I reformatted using SFS, but that was a old version. I'll try it with 2.2, but first someone remind me where the ICEFS.key file goes, As I've forgotten!

ENVARC:

right, Peg 1 with a single hard drive with a sfs partion DH0: and a ICEFS 2.2 DH1: Here's the disk speed results for the ICEFS drive: (buffers set to 1200 in HDconfig)

Ram Disk:DiskSpeed> DiskSpeed drive dh1: all
Aros DiskSpeed 4.10 Copyright © 2004-2006 The AROS Development Team
------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor: PPC MorphOS Build: 51.37 Normal Video DMA
Device: dh1: Buffers: <information unavailable>

CPU Speed Rating: 382128

Testing directory manipulation speed.
File Create: 958 files/sec | CPU Available: 17%
File Open: 7531 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Directory Scan: 18874 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
File Delete: 1175 files/sec | CPU Available: 24%

Seek/Read: 10865 seeks/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 3866496 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%
Write to file: 9442112 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%
Read from file: 8787008 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 2%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 16122368 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 13%
Write to file: 48511488 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 34938880 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 3%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 18341888 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 20%
Write to file: 28991488 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 40%
Read from file: 27897856 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 61%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 19169280 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 24%
Write to file: 39452672 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 50%
Read from file: 37715968 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 77%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 3913152 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 9%
Write to file: 9186368 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%
Read from file: 8638912 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 15708160 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 14%
Write to file: 50592768 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 14%
Read from file: 35177472 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 17%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 18440192 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 20%
Write to file: 29278208 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 20%
Read from file: 23760896 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 43%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 19103744 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 24%
Write to file: 39354368 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 50%
Read from file: 37683200 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 27%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 3912384 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 9%
Write to file: 9299712 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 10%
Read from file: 8885760 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 11%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 16155136 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 13%
Write to file: 51256832 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 14%
Read from file: 35748864 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 17%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 13176832 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 17%
Write to file: 22441984 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 32%
Read from file: 22503424 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 48%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 11862016 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 17%
Write to file: 20840448 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 30%
Read from file: 20152320 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 14%

Average CPU Available: 20% | CPU Availability index: 33476

[ Edited by stephen_robinson on 2011/1/22 15:31 ]

And this is for the SFS partition:

Ram Disk:DiskSpeed> DiskSpeed drive dh0: all
Aros DiskSpeed 4.10 Copyright © 2004-2006 The AROS Development Team
------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor: PPC MorphOS Build: 51.37 Normal Video DMA
Device: dh0: Buffers: 1200

CPU Speed Rating: 373981

Testing directory manipulation speed.
File Create: 2973 files/sec | CPU Available: 22%
File Open: 6719 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Directory Scan: 20525 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
File Delete: 6674 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Seek/Read: 11194 seeks/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 3903616 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%
Write to file: 9762752 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 10527104 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 6246652 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 16%
Write to file: 54822912 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 16%
Read from file: 67352576 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 16%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 14127104 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Write to file: 29278208 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 35%
Read from file: 30797824 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 57%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 16482304 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 17%
Write to file: 40894464 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 44%
Read from file: 37945344 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 28%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 3912660 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 7%
Write to file: 9751616 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 7%
Read from file: 10600896 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 6979072 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Write to file: 54809600 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 64970240 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 14225408 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 16%
Write to file: 29290496 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 20%
Read from file: 30117888 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 42%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 16121856 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 18%
Write to file: 40730624 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 27%
Read from file: 37814272 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 55%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 3979584 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 6%
Write to file: 9436096 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 6%
Read from file: 10451392 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 7%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 6970368 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Write to file: 51514368 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Read from file: 63029248 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 6164480 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 2%
Write to file: 7589888 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 2%
Read from file: 8683520 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 3%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 6422528 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%
Write to file: 7798784 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%
Read from file: 8749056 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%

Average CPU Available: 14% | CPU Availability index: 9408

Unfortunately I'm to lazy to shove all that into a spreadsheet and make nice easy to understand graphs, so somebody else will have to do the actual analysis of that.


Sorry..

Half done, nothing done.

Come on. Fire some spreadsheet and push the numbers together!

Or at least, your comments on these numbers!

But that would require, effort...

I'm finding the partition with ICEFS on it stable, I may update the sys: partititon when MorphOS 2.8 comes out.

Im on holyday atm and comparing all those test results on my phone browser is not easy. So if someone could summarize the results it would help.
Right now I could just bother to read the file create and file delete results from the top of each test, and from that it looks like IceFS is much slower than SFS.

ps. Im having a Singha beer while writing this, so guess where my holyday is?

I'll give Open Office a go.. I need to brush up my non existent skills anyway :)

@ stephen

Btw could you tell what other settings were used, like size of cachelines and size of blocks for SFS and IceFS ?

icefs.jpg

All standard except the max recyled files which I had a play with, and increased a bit.

Quote:

Formatted with or without Logfile ?

Ok. I have made a PDF from the benchmark values:
Comparison PDF (Updated)

I skipped the BYTE values, didn't add much interesting
new info anyway..

A note on the slow deletion speed.. I knew about it
before but I'm still not sure why it is that slow,
should be improved in some future release.

Another note: It is a bit strange that write speed is
often higher or same as read speed in the above tests..

[ Edited by Leif on 2011/1/23 14:12 ]

[ Edited by Leif on 2011/1/23 14:14 ]

[ Edited by Leif on 2011/1/23 14:38 ]

[ Edited by Leif on 2011/1/23 22:09 ]

Right, I've turned off logging and set max recyled files to 0, and run it on SFS, and ICEFS partitions on the same physical drive again. I also ran it on the ram: Drive just for the lulz. As the young people apparently say.

DiskSpeed drive dh0: all >testresultssfs.txt

The testing program is DiskSpeed 4.10


Couldn't get the attachment to work, so sorry, have to cut 'n paste in:

ICEFS:

Aros DiskSpeed 4.10 Copyright © 2004-2006 The AROS Development Team
------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor: PPC MorphOS Build: 51.37 Normal Video DMA
Device: dh1: Buffers: <information unavailable>

CPU Speed Rating: 382327

Testing directory manipulation speed.
File Create: 2142 files/sec | CPU Available: 15%
File Open: 7637 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Directory Scan: 18693 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
File Delete: 10905 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Seek/Read: 10832 seeks/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 1635200 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 10%
Write to file: 9021824 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 11%
Read from file: 3472704 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 29%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 14316544 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 14%
Write to file: 52965376 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Read from file: 36503552 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 2%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 25698304 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 18%
Write to file: 29650944 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 38%
Read from file: 29741056 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 59%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 33292288 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 22%
Write to file: 39682048 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 26%
Read from file: 15728640 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 29%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 1896832 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%
Write to file: 9005184 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%
Read from file: 3514496 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 19%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 17115136 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 11%
Write to file: 59158528 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 12%
Read from file: 36377600 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 14%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 25878528 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 18%
Write to file: 30093312 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 20%
Read from file: 30855168 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 41%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 33193984 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 22%
Write to file: 39813120 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 48%
Read from file: 15761408 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 29%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 1836096 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 7%
Write to file: 9001344 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%
Read from file: 3521088 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 18%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 17138176 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 11%
Write to file: 49899520 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 12%
Read from file: 35991040 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 14%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 20516864 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 13%
Write to file: 23187456 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 28%
Read from file: 22999040 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 17%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 20512768 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 13%
Write to file: 23461888 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Read from file: 22020096 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 30%

Average CPU Available: 17% | CPU Availability index: 22046


SFS


Aros DiskSpeed 4.10 Copyright © 2004-2006 The AROS Development Team
------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor: PPC MorphOS Build: 51.37 Normal Video DMA
Device: dh0: Buffers: 1200

CPU Speed Rating: 366006

Testing directory manipulation speed.
File Create: 4536 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
File Open: 8250 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Directory Scan: 21048 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
File Delete: 9153 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Seek/Read: 11096 seeks/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 4063296 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%
Write to file: 9998656 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%
Read from file: 10542592 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 7045632 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 16%
Write to file: 52770304 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 16%
Read from file: 63093248 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 16%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 14290944 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Write to file: 29376512 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 21%
Read from file: 30875648 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 22%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 16809984 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 18%
Write to file: 41254912 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 46%
Read from file: 37945344 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 74%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 4127808 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%
Write to file: 9808704 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%
Read from file: 10383936 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 8%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 7107584 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Write to file: 51700224 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 62389248 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 13602816 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 16%
Write to file: 29351936 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 37%
Read from file: 30101504 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 58%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 15400960 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 17%
Write to file: 36601856 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 24%
Read from file: 37945344 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 52%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 3919836 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 7%
Write to file: 9662976 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 7%
Read from file: 9992320 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 7%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 7052288 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 15%
Write to file: 55335936 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 64586752 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 6098944 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 3%
Write to file: 7614464 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 8744960 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 6324224 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 1%
Write to file: 7864320 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 8781824 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Average CPU Available: 13% | CPU Availability index: 4631


Ram:

Aros DiskSpeed 4.10 Copyright © 2004-2006 The AROS Development Team
------------------------------------------------------------------
Processor: PPC MorphOS Build: 51.37 Normal Video DMA
Device: ram: Buffers: <information unavailable>

CPU Speed Rating: 382993

Testing directory manipulation speed.
File Create: 5186 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
File Open: 8312 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Directory Scan: 21605 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%
File Delete: 17649 files/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Seek/Read: 11596 seeks/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 10348224 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 10158016 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 10663552 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 50139648 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 56350208 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 67644928 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 89182208 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 104050688 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 160546816 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, LONG-aligned buffer.
Create file: 52789248 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 56393728 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 56164352 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 10033600 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 10050048 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 10508096 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 48986624 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 54368256 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 65356800 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 97878016 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 127991808 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 176640000 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, WORD-aligned buffer.
Create file: 52166656 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 55672832 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 59211776 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 512 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 10120832 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 10215488 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 10581184 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 4096 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 48814592 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 54123520 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 64680448 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 32768 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 97914880 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 128180224 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 176648192 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Testing with a 262144 byte, MEMF_FAST, BYTE-aligned buffer.
Create file: 52297728 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Write to file: 55738368 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%
Read from file: 59277312 bytes/sec | CPU Available: 0%

Average CPU Available: 0% | CPU Availability index: 0




[ Edited by stephen_robinson on 2011/1/23 19:26 ]

@ stephen

The latest IceFS test does not have "cpu available" enabled,
the others have so should be remade..

changed the post with new figures ^^

Quote:

Ok. updated PDF Here

..Bah. Forgot to add Ram values..

[ Edited by Leif on 2011/1/23 22:17 ]

It's a 701Mhz Peg 1 actually...

Results look pretty odd for 4096 buffer.

Tried DiskSpeed4.10 for MorphOS and DiskSpeed 4.2 (68k), both give weird results for 4096 buffer.

For 512 bytes buffer, i get a rough 15MB for read (LONG aligned or whatever...)
For 4096 bytes buffer, i get a rough 100MB for read (LONG aligned...)
For 32758 bytes buffer, i get a rough 55MB for read (LONG aligned...)

Something is wrong with this test. You would expect a flat rising slop with buffer increase and then no gain at all with even bigger buffer.

Unless this test measures FS caching efficiency.

Anyway, those numbers look odd. I wouldn't expect that an old 2"1/2 PATA 5400RPM drive would give a nice 100MB read.

++

Quote:

Yeah.. its all in cache for 4096 bytes. Try with just 2 cachelines
instead :)