Re: reiserfs for bkbits.net?

[Bryan Whitehead <driver@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Sander <sander@humilis.net> 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.
> 
> 
> If someone does any tests, I'd be interested to hear about the
> results.
> 

http://pcbunn.cacr.caltech.edu/gae/3ware_raid_tests.htm

They needed 200MByte/sec disk transfer speed. this is how they got it.

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