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* Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS seems to be stable as of 2.4.4
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@ 2001-05-07  0:19     ` Hans Reiser
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From: Hans Reiser @ 2001-05-07  0:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dirk Mueller; +Cc: Chris Mason, reiserfs-list, linux-kernel

Dirk Mueller wrote:

>
> Now consider a good amount of fragmentation because those files get created
> over time (weeks, months etc). and you quickly degenerade to a scanning
> speed of maybe 10-20 files per second (Athlon 800, IBM 60GB HD with roughly
> 35MB/s linear read). It was that horrible that I quickly returned to mbox
> for those lists with high amount of traffic.

I think only a repacker can properly cure performance problems of slowly
accumulating files and directories .  September 2002.

We can do other things that will gain 5 percent here and there, but the repacker
will be the real cure.

Hans


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