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Well I mean, you wouldn't use a file system like XFS or JFS for a mail sever, you CAN but by and large you won't. I can see very specific cases where different file systems are great, I mean, they were built... however if I were able to configure the number of inodes on ext3 I think I would rather use that then resier by and large. just my opinion though. ~Ben On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Mark J. Dulcey <[hidden email]> wrote: > Ben Holland wrote: > > > Well that and I was being quite facetious. I mean, to be honest, I used > > resier3 for a while on my gentoo box, thought it was nice... but unless > > reiserfs ever gets put in say, the defaults for redhat/fedoria/ubuntu > > grabbing traction is going to be really really hard. And now with the lead > > developer who (can I say) killed his wife... Also all the dev's on ext3/4 > > and it's great stability and general all around awesomeness I don't see > > reiser filling a need. ~Ben > > > > reiserfs does have some advantages. Even the existing version (reiser3) > outperforms ext2,3,4 on directories with a lot of files, so it's a good > choice for (say) a mail server using maildirs or an NNTP server. reiser4 > extends that advantage and adds space efficiency for small files by packing > multiple small files into a single disk block. That's not as big a deal as > it used to be now that disk space costs 20 cents per gigabyte, but it could > matter if you were trying to implement a WinFS-like vision of file system as > the ultimate database. Finally, reiserfs doesn't have a fixed inode limit; > you don't have to worry about configuring your file system correctly for the > mix of files you expect to have, it's all automatic. The defaults for extN > are reasonable for many systems, but on a mail server you run out of inodes > before you run out of space, and on a media server you waste a bunch of > space unnecessarily on inodes you won't use. > > reiser4 appears to be dramatically faster than existing file systems at > some operations. It is also slower at some others, so as usual it helps to > know what the expected usage of a file system is before making your choice. > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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