firstly sorry about the *useless* e-mail, I hit Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C (I'm using pine), I only noticed when I saw the "message sent" message....bugger :)
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > > It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a >noticeable amount more electric power. Rebalancing only has to happen when >something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at >all. Every file system has some CPU overhead for management. Reiserfs >doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow. >Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast. > I was only wondering if it sorted out the tree whilst it was idle, however after your comments it looks like I have no problems. > Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs. > looks like I'll be doing ReiserFS when I'm back at university, however not till my exams are over :( Alex PS. I noticed you have a nslug.ca e-mail, you know Ben Armstrong (aka Fishy in the xpilot circles?), only curious......
