We also use reiserfs here and it works fine.
the reason was jornaling and we have also many (>2k) files in one
directory which is significant faster with reiserfs.
robert
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, 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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