From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ookhoi Subject: new reiserfs4 snapshots? Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:49:18 +0100 Message-ID: <20021223124918.A17993@humilis> References: <3E06F360.7000708@namesys.com> Reply-To: ookhoi@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E06F360.7000708@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hans Reiser Cc: ReiserFS Hans Reiser wrote (ao): > We were discussing how to optimize reiser4 best, and came to realize > that us developers did not have a good enough intuition for what users > do that stresses their filesystem enough that they care about its > performance. > > If you just do edits of files it probably does not matter too much > what fs you use. > > Booting the machine seems like one activity that many users end up > waiting on the FS for. Yes? > > Starting up complex and big applications like xemacs and mozilla would > be another. Yes? > > Others? find? (un)tar sources/backups/etc? mail? (mbox/maildir; large mailboxes) > Hans > > PS > > reiser4 performance is up a lot recently, and within two weeks I think > cp -r will have been optimized as much as is worth doing. cp -r > accesses files in readdir order, and that does indeed seem worth > optimizing, but soon we will need to optimize more sophisticated > access patterns than that..... Can you please make new reiserfs4 snapshots available for testing? The last one is from December 4. I tried to pull the linux kernel bk and the reiserfs ones, got a kernel that compiled and booted, but the fs went bellyup pretty fast. I don't think a report is useful as the bk pulls are moving targets. Am I right? Also I'm not sure I did it the right way as I couldn't find it documented. Can you please point me to some documentation or provide quick instructions in a reply? Thank you and the team for these great filesystems.