On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 05:11, darren wrote: > Was just wondering about the possibilities of using reiserfs on my > Solaris 6 machine. > > Any chance of that?
I doubt it. I can't imagine Sun (or anyone else) paying Hans enough money to do this. Veritas VXFS is good for this type of thing. Any time you want half decent IO performance on Solaris you want Veritas VXFS and Volume Manager. > I am having problems with FS performance (large number, 20K of small > files in folder with constant writes and deletes) on the Sun Machine and > was thinking if this can help me. > > The only way I know is to use a Linux machine running reiser and NFS it > over. But performance will surely be degraded this way....any other > suggestions? In 1999 I was doing some work on AIX machines. I found that an AIX server was so slow that NFS mounting a ReiserFS file system over a 10baseT network was faster for some operations!!! If you do a usenet search you can find references to this, comp.sys.aix or something. Another option is to use Linux on the SPARC machine. Linux on SPARC reputedly performs a lot better than Solaris if you have 8 or less CPUs, even without the ReiserFS issue. I think that Linux on SPARC can even run Solaris binaries (but I'm not certain). PS There is no such thing as Solaris 6. They jumped straight from Solaris 2.6 (which is presumably what you are using) to Solaris 7.0. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
