Re: reiserfs for bkbits.net?

Mihai RUSU
2004-02-11T16:53:13Z

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Hi Larry

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Larry McVoy wrote:

> 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.

I dont have much reiserfs experience on production systems so I cannot say
anything about its stability. However, about the external journal
question, my bonnie++ tests (which I would recommend you do them yourself)
showed not much increase in speed than with internal journal, than say,
xfs with internal or external (but the reiserfs values where much better
in general, at least in the many small files test).

As you said because its mostly read() that shouldnt matter. Dont forget
noatime mount option :).

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