On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 09:10, Kastus wrote:
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:21:58PM -0400, Buck wrote:
What are the advantages of using Reiser vs Ext3.
This topic was discussed recently on suse-oracle mailing list: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-oracle/2003-Sep/0212.html
and according to benchmarks in http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2002/techarticles/scalzo_linux02.htm... oracle DB runs more than two times faster on ext3 than on reiserfs.
This, of course, does not apply to all uses of Linux, it's just a particular case of oracle.
Reiserfs does outperform ext3 when handling small files (by a factor of) Reiserfs is geared toward regular users except if you customize (hence why ext3 will beat Reiserfs when a db is concerned is DBs use large files the opposite is true for us normal users who spend more time in the smaller file area. Reiser is a very good f.s. (but for the fs for your database yes you should consider either XFS or another fs if you want to get the last ounce of IO for those large files)