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From: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 12 Sep 2000, at 16:06, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
>
> > How does a different filesystem, like ReiserFS help? Hypothetically?
>
> Any system which doesn't scan directories in linear order but using
> binary search (keeping directory entries sorted, or indexed) helps a
> lot. Not only ReiserFS, but also NTFS lie in that domain. (Well, I
> *think* ReiserFS lies in that domain; I *know* NTFS does.)
> [ ... ]
> Hell, I would like to see ext2 with much better scaling - Maildirs
> would finally stop to suck when overcrowded. But *personally* I
> trust more the code from the "mainstream distribution" (read: ext2)
> then patching my kernel (read: reiserFS). I'll wait until a better
> filesystem claws its way into RedHat distro. :-)
I'm running ReiserFS on our non-critical partition (squid caching) and have
been for about 6 months solid. The only errors or glitches I've come across
is running out of space incorrectly (df -h reports one amount, but the
filesystem reports an error when creating a file). This would be an
issue -- but in this case, I'm running things close to the line (I've told
Squid to use 450M of a 500M partition).
There is a project to modify qmail 1.03 to work more efficiently with
ReiserFS' design; see their mailing list archives if you want details.
