A. Khattri wrote: >On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>How did you do this conversion? Reiserfs exhibits poor performance if >>you simply extract an archive of a different filesystem. >> >> > >Why? Are you saying if I make a tarball on an ext2 fs and then copy and >untar this tarball onto a ReiserFS filesystem, the files created are not >created as ReiserFS files? > >That doesn't make sense. > > >
It has to do with the fact that reiserfs orders files by their hashes internally, so operations that rely on readdir() (such as rm -rvf, etc) can perform poorly if the files on disk are not layed out in the same order. It is a fairly common problem when trying to benchmark reiserfs against other filesystems. See: http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#file-ordering-speed -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
