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 |