Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Question is.... do I trust the Reiser partition to continue working
> > now?
> Is reiser still maintained? In the aftermath of the Reiser trial, I
> switched my non-ext partitions to JFS. The truth is, as a desktop I've
> noticed no difference. Unless you have a compelling reason to stick
> with reiser (email server, or other lots of small files with frequent
> turnover) then you can switch.

Speaking as a Cyrus IMAP admin - the small-file argument is pretty much 
bogus at this point.   With dir index enabled current ext3 is pretty 
good;  that plus directory hashing [a server feature] you have to have a 
very large load to record a significant different between filesystems.
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