Re: reiserfs for bkbits.net?

[Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>]

Sander writes:
 > Larry McVoy wrote (ao):
 > > We're moving openlogging back to our offices and I'm experimenting
 > > with filesystems to see what gives the best performance for BK usage.
 > > Reiserfs looks pretty good and I'm wondering if anyone knows any
 > > reasons that we shouldn't use it for bkbits.net. Also, would it help
 > > if the journal was on a different disk? Most of the bkbits traffic is
 > > read so I doubt it.
 > > 
 > > Please cc me, I'm not on the list.
 > 
 > I've cc'ed the Reiserfs mailinglist.
 > 
 > IME Reiserfs is a fast and stable fs. If you have the time to benchmark
 > ext3, reiserfs, jfs and xfs (and ..) with bk then you would know first
 > hand which fs is best for you. It might be worth the time.

I can add that concurrent bk clone of kernel repositories is very good
file system stress tool that we are using while debugging reiser4.

 > 
 > With kind regards, Sander
 > 

Nikita.