4:19pm, Toni Van Remortel wrote:

> Paul Archer wrote:
>> Looks like a good tip. Unfortunately, since I'm running a reiserfs
>> filesystem on Linux, it doesn't help me directly. But it does bring up a
>> good point: does anyone know of any filesystem tweaks for reiserfs that
>> might bring similar improvements in this situation of accessing millions of
>> small files?
>>
> I mount my /backup raid with noatime and notail options.
>
Don't forget nodiratime.
I was thinking more of reisertunefs tweaks or similar, but it is supposed to 
be optimized for a lot of small files to begin with, so there might not be 
anything else (short of buying more disks).

Paul


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