From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Briggs Subject: Re: ReiserFS slow, need help diagnosing Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:09:18 -0600 Message-ID: <1149527358.9416.33.camel@localhost> References: <1149516737.6402.120.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <1149520582.6402.134.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <1149522884.6402.144.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <44845A51.9030504@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7IQr+gnnVBwoYnz+hzhp" Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <44845A51.9030504@namesys.com> List-Id: To: Hans Reiser Cc: Grzegorz Kulewski , "Vladimir V. Saveliev" , Juergen Starek , reiserfs-list@namesys.com --=-7IQr+gnnVBwoYnz+hzhp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:22 -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: >=20 > > > >> > >> Well, inode location in reiser4 changed comparing to reiserfs. reiser4 > >> groups inodes of files of one directory together (reiserfs did not do > >> that), but still allocated disk space for inodes dynamically as > >> reiserfs. > >> So, I guess that reiser4 will be better than reiserfs, but > >> still worse than ext[23]. Would you verify this guess it please? > > > I wouild not assume this. There is a huge difference with respect to > this usage pattern between reiser4 and reiser3, it should dramatically > improve. I don't know if we will be better or worse than ext3, it could > be either, best to measure it. I also use Pan, and recently switched to using Reiser4 on my laptop. I can tell that Pan starts much more quickly than it used to using Reiser3. It isn't nearly as fast as starting it from a USB Flash drive though. I don't know how it compares to ext3, although the flash drive was using a ext2 loopback on FAT-32 filesystem. --=20 Jonathan Briggs eSoft, Inc. --=-7IQr+gnnVBwoYnz+hzhp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEhGU+G8fHaOLTWwgRAsq3AJ9/RYl2gIyDUeI+/8XbUJNHAT8duQCfdksc kg0TegiNbgbjId4mZr0JT7I= =u6vm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7IQr+gnnVBwoYnz+hzhp--