Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > Joe Brenner wrote: > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > > > B. Alexander wrote: > > > > Ron Johnson<ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> > > >> XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've > > > >> also seen simple benchmarks on this list showing that it's faster > > > >> than ext3/ext4. > > > > > > > > Thats cool. What about Lots of Little Files? That was another of the > > > > draws of reiser3. > > > > > > That same unofficial benchmark showed surprising small-file speed by > > > xfs. > > Would you happen to have any links to such benchmarks, unofficial or > > otherwise? > > My experience has been that whenever I look at filesystem benchmarks, > > they skip the many-small-files case. I've always had the feeling that > > most of the big filesystems cared a lot about scaling up in file-size, > > but not too much about anything else. > NB: This is my best recollection; I'm not looking this up right now. Please > check my facts, I'd love to know if I'm wrong. Like I said, I *have* looked at filesystem comparisons a number of times. It's my problem to check your assertions? Why isn't it your problem to check my assertions? > > I'm a Reiser3 user myself, and I've never had any problems with it. > > (The trouble with it being "long in the tooth" is mostly hypothetical, > > isn't it?) > > Not really. Outside of one mention of "bugs on reiserfs that will not be fixed", you're pretty much just describing the theory. I do understand that using relatively unsupported software, even if it's pretty mature software, can have it's problems. Just doing a few quick websearches, I'm reading about ReiserFS bugs fixed as recently as 2006, 2007... It's not like it's not getting any attention from developers. > In addition, as file system technology advances, reiserfs will become > less attractive for new installs and it will become more attractive to > migrate way from it. I think you're better off if you rely on really well-tested migration tools (e.g. "tar"). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004300103.o3u13kch005...@kzsu.stanford.edu
