On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:55:07 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > So, I reverted to ext3, and I will never touch reiserfs again. ext3 | > doesn't loose its marbles. | | NOOOO! Please DONT install ext3, ext3 is just a ext2 file system with | journalling support. ext2 is a slow file system and ext3 is even | slower, it also has to keep a kjournald thread running taking up your | CPU.
Heh. Someone's claiming that reiserfs is a better choice because it uses less CPU? Did someone deliver a free batch of McBride's Special whilst I wasn't looking? ext3 with dir_index enabled is pretty close to reiser performance-wise, and it has the added advantage of using about a tenth of the CPU power. Reiserfs is only fast if you have lots of CPU and not much disc bandwidth, such as in your typical gamer's unbalanced super-overclocked athlon-xp setup with only one IDE drive. Otherwise, reiser's CPU hit is a real pain. Remember: when benchmarking, run a half dozen setiathome threads (not nice'd) at the same time -- it'll show you how well a filesystem performs when your box is under load, which is where things are interesting anyway. | Ext2 is so badly designed that although we know that journalling file | systems have additional overhead that non journalling filesystem, but | although ext2 is a non journalling file system, it cant even match up | to journalling file systems like reiserfs or XFS. Complete bs. | Reiserfs is a stable file system, if you run a 2.4.20 or above kernel | reiserfs should be stabler than ext3. Also bs. It's better than it was, but it's nowhere near as well tested as ext3. | A lot of major sites use reiserfs so dont let people make you think | that reiser is unstable, its wrong. Reiserfs is used as the default | file system for suse and lindows. Sure, and Windows 2000 uses NTFS by default. What's your point? | Sourceforge uses it. That might explain why sourceforge's cvs is broken so frequently... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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