From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cmaurand Subject: Re: Relocating files for faster boot/start-up on reiser(fs/4) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:01:52 -0400 Message-ID: <450960D0.9020203@bluetarp.com> References: <200609131451.42474.lists@qutek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com SCO has done this solution, thats why its such a dog. Peter wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:51:39 -0600, Quinn Harris wrote: >> Thoughts? >> > > Yes. Why on earth would you do this? By copying the files and renaming and > hardlinking them is nothing a sysadmin would ever do. Just by copying you > are allowing reiser to optimize the dir. You're trying to duplicate what a > tree-based design does automatically. Moreover, remember that reiser packs > files into clusters so that you may read more than just your one file from > time to time which could end up adding time to your test. > > If reiser needs speedup it certainly won't be done by renaming files! > > JM$0.02 > -- Curtis Maurand Senior Network & Systems Engineer BlueTarp Financial, Inc. 443 Congress St. 6th Floor Portland, ME 04101 207.797.5900 x233 (office) 207.797.3833 (fax) mailto:cmaurand@bluetarp.com http://www.bluetarp.com