On Friday 30 November 2001 11:45 am, Jason Van Patten wrote: > At Fri Nov 30 15:44:07 2001, Brad Felmey wrote: > > On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 14:21, Vincent Danen wrote: > > > Not entirely accurate. I'm exporting 20, 40, and 60GB volumes from > > > one 8.2 box to another using reiserfs and NFS. Speed is just fine > > > with no issues. The same could not be said for 8.1, however. > > > > I'm nowhere nearly brave/stupid enough to run our mission-critical > > company's servers on cooker. > > Is it a Mandrake version thing or a kernel version thing? I thought Reiser > was supposed to straighten the NFS problems out in "newer" 2.4.x kernels. > > Truthfully, how can the version of Mandrake really make a difference?
We use knfsd which was the last one to be attended to. It was a non-critical failure--nfs accesses just faded away to very very long access times after a few running days with no fs corruption. Newer kernels apparently have the problem licked, finally. XFS is about equal in speed to Reiser except for takedown time (deleting 100,000 files took about ten times as long with XFS -- that was files singly by name being removed, not a bulk 'rm -r * ') and is known to function well with nfs and with NT ACLs which might be important if you use samba in a system wirth NT or W2K servers. JFS seems to be faster in some applications, but still had stability problems at release time though the big ones seem to have been conquered. Disadvantages for JFS appear to be the need to defrag and the inefficient (in space) storage of small files. Civileme
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