John Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:39 AM, J Sloan
wrote: Not really - in this case, the original author did not want those extensions added, but the power of open source is that they could be added anyway. But the fact is, even though the code was open, nobody understood reiserfs as well as the folks who designed it.
The original author didn't want a lot of things, (including letting his wife live), but mostly because he had plans for reiserfs4.
Well, I'm not going to debate his sainthood here, but yes, he was focused on v4.
noatime has been there for a long time, but its only really useful in laptops, where it kept the disk spinning and interfered with power saving. On server class machines there is no reason to specify noatime.
Sure there is. Think about it. with atime enabled: Every time you read from disk, you write to disk and update the atime field of all affected files. Every time you read from the disk cache, guess what? you write to disk and update the atime of all affected files. That's a performance hit, and a scalability bottleneck.
Notail is a performance enhancement and its presence or absence does not cause lockups.
Nobody that I know of has ever said that the notail option, or lack of it, caused lockups.
Reiserfs3 is well understood. Suse has be maintaining it for years.
"Well understood" is a relative term. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org