No.

Workload property

Ext3

Esext3

1

File and Directory count

Single file per scan

Many files and Directories

Directory tree deepness

Often deeply nested directories

Low and Homogeneous

File size

Incline towards many small files

Multi-gigabyte disk image files

2

Meta-data operations

Lowest (40%)

Many (72%)

3

I/O synchronization

Asynchronous and synchronization

Asynchronous and synchronization

4

In-file randomness

Workload-dependent

Workload-dependent

Cross-file randomness

Workload-dependent

Workload-dependent

5

I/O size

Workload-dependent

Workload-dependent

6

Read-modify-write

Infrequent

Infrequent

7

Processing time

Workload-dependent

Increased because of manual XOR checksum