On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:06:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >resierfs: yes, it's a problem. I "fixed" it multiple times in 2.4, but the > > >fixes ended up breaking the fs in subtle ways and I eventually gave up. > > > > andrew, this is really helpful. should we conclude that until some > > announcement from reiser that they have addressed this, the reiserfs > > should be avoided on low latency systems? > > It seems that way, yes. I do not know how common the holdoffs are in real > life. It would be interesting if there was a user report that switching > from reiserfs to ext2/ext3 actually made a difference - this would tell us > that it is indeed a real-world problem.
I think there was a report on linux-audio-user where switch from reiser to ext[23] fixed someones latency problems. - Steve
