a fried of mine has been doing some benchmarking with different filesystems and have found that ext3 is the fastest (almost 10 meg a second faster on my system) with larger files (512 meg, 1 gig) but with smaller file sizes, the difference between reiser and ext3 isnt enough to notice. He is in the prining industry and has to deal with large files constantly. For a mail server, you will be dealing with lots of small files. for this, reiser is a better filesystem than ext2 but i dont know about ext3. i do know that the journaling is a god send. with a mail server, something is almost always being written to the drive and a power failure can cause you to have to go through the fsck and probaby manually clean up some files. On Monday 29 April 2002 01:39 pm, AnonymousCoward wrote:
. It is quite fast. I've used it 3 years without a glitch.
With Suse8 though I had to use ext3, as Reiser does not yet support filesizes that I need now.
BTW, journalling not only is faster at crash recovery, it is more reliable. It has a running journal of all transactions and does them as it can. If the system crashes it doesn't have to go out looking for errors and hope it finds them... it knows exactly what has/not been done.
Ext3 does seem slower to me. As soon as the new Reiser is out of beta I'll switch.
BTW, Suse8 seems so smooth and steady. What a relief.
Only real problem I have is in Konq when you try to edit a file, "KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite'". Also I noticed in file types, must apps are double-entered. May be a related setup problem. Nothing on Google.
On Monday 29 April 2002 13:11, Ewan Leith wrote:
Reiserfs uses a very different filesystem architecture from ext2 and other filesystems, which makes it much much quicker at handling small files (its performance on large files is good, but not amazing).
If you want some specific information on reiserfs, check out www.namesys.com, the webpage of the developers.
Ewan
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 18:45, Manral wrote:
Dear friends Could some one explain as to how RaiserFS is faster than ext2 file system ... I am setting up an email server should i make only the /var partition raiserfs or should i make all the /boot, / ansd /usr etc all of them under raiserfs .
Can some one explain the improvement in performance in cas i use raiserfs ..how does it improve the performance ... regards neeraj ----
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