-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > Martin Schlemmer posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > excerpted below, on Tue, 10 May 2005 11:02:07 +0200: > > >>Problem with flat tree, is the search times might then suck even more, as >>last I heard, too many dirs/files in one directory have a huge speed >>penalty. > > > Yeah, sure, for ext2/3, but all those small files would suck big time in > ext2/3 anyway. Reiserfs doesn't have either issue, and should be perfect > for portage trees, even for those who still think the reliability isn't > there (I've been /very/ happy with it here, since the data=ordered > default went into the kernel for reiserfs, even when I had defective > memory and was hard-locking fairly frequently due to that), because > portage trees are a simple sync away from replacing anything lost. > > I never remember which one it is, but either jfs or xfs has packed files > as a feature as well, IIRC, so the small file sizes works, altho I believe > it'd still have issues with high file-count dirs. > I'll be the first alt-arch person to scream, Reiser isn't stable on more than half the arch's we support, and forcing users to go to one filesystem just to get decent speed on portage tree searches is silly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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