Re: reiserfs for bkbits.net?

Måns Rullgård
2004-02-11T16:30:43Z

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.

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