On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 14:24, Mike Benoit wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 09:59, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > There were a few bugs of ours that acted as red herrings, but Linspire > > > is now up and running on this system with ReiserFS 3 and kernel 2.6.5. > > > > > > While I'm here, I have some other questions: > > > > > > * What is the time complexity of mounting a ReiserFS partition? > > > It seems to be proportional to the size of the partition? Is it > > > different for Reiser4? > > > * Is there a tool to determine the type of file system on a > > > partition without mounting it? > > > > > is the time a problem in practice, or just a curiousity point? > > Hans, > > The last place I worked had a 2.5TB RAID array that had 10's of > millions of files on it, basically a perfect fit for ReiserFS. However > they rejected it simply because of the mount times. It was a slower > machine (mainly used for dumb storage, however uptime was critical) but > the mount times were just crazy, I don't have hard numbers, but if I > recall correctly I was told around 5-10 minutes. > Hans' guys made mount times better in v3 by reading the bitmaps in big chunks. I suspect you were using a kernel from before that fix.
-chris
