Journaling was the main reason we switched. Another reason was the 32K limit on subdirectories using ext2
(this problem appeared when we surpassed 32K users in Cyrus).
As for speed it does appear to be faster but we haven't done any tests to prove it.
John Horne wrote:
> 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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