On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:15:03 +0100 (CET) Yamaban <foerster@lisas.de> wrote:
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:49, David Haller <dnh@...> wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I have a problem with my one remaining reiserfs partition on rotating rust. [..] The first one is the actual mount, the rest are bind mounts - fstab:
LABEL=c_data_reiser /data/Lareiserfs reiserfs acl,user_xattr,barrier=flush,lazytime 1 3
That is not good for a newsspool. I use a loop-mounted image with reiserfs for that purpose. The relevant mount options:
[..]/news_reiserfs.img /var/spool/news reiserfs loop,acl,user_xattr,strictatime,barrier=flush,noauto 0 0
Note the 'strictatime'. The image-file is on an ext3.
Without wanting to start a filesystem-war, would xfs be an alternative to reiserfs for a news-spool usage? btrfs is (still) a no-go for this usecase imho, and not for debate here.
xfs is regarded as good for large files and also large directories. reiserfs is good for small files and large directories. I believe a news spool is more like the small file case. But Carlos' problem isn't to do with the news spool anyway so further discussion is off-topic.
- Yamaban.