LVM Religious Wars

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:37:14PM -0400, Bill Ricker wrote:
> tho ext3's dir_index option
> >
> "Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories."
> >
> 
> Good to know, but that sounds like that's even more useful for Mail folders
> -- more related to size of directory than smallness or ephemeralness of the
> file?

Yeah, it's about performance with large numbers of files, as
opposed to the actual size of the files. 

> Why not use reiser for everything? Is ext3's journal more robust?

Ext3 has been tested more than Reiser3 (and much, much more than
Reiser4). If you're feeling paranoid about data, you go with the
old standards. If you feel that performance is more critical
than reliability (an outgoing mail queue, temporary storage for
anything, working space for media editing) then you take more
chances.

-dsr-