Re: [Exim] Linux reiserFS and exim

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Author: John Horne
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To: Exim Users List
Subject: Re: [Exim] Linux reiserFS and exim
On 19-Mar-01 at 13:41:08 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> We use Exim with reiserfs on a 2.2.x kernel on 2 machines. Works fine.
>

But is there a significant, or even noticeable, difference? Why did you
choose reiserfs?

John.

> John Horne wrote:
>
>> I noticed on the squid (web cache) mailing list recently than people had
>> been having some substantial (?) performance improvement by using the
>> reiser file system (ReiserFS) available with the linux 2.4 kernels. My
>> own thoughts were that reiserFS was a logging file system, but I gather
>> it also provides an improvement because it is geared towards many small
>> files within a large directory.
>>



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