Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 19:11:42 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > mdbox? Is this a single file per mail folder? > > > > It's multiple mails per file and multiple files per mailbox. > > > > > The main reason I switched to maildir several decades ago was > > > precisely the issues (by design) mbox

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 07:06:24 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> btrfs isn't horrible, but it basically hasn't been optimized at all. >> The developers are mainly focused on getting it to not destroy your >> data, with mixed success. An obvious e

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, October 7, 2017 6:13:57 PM CEST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:59:39 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Although, I will also be switching to dovecot's mdbox format when I > > > set up my next server, so the issue of lots of small files won't be > > > nearly as big. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:59:39 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Although, I will also be switching to dovecot's mdbox format when I > > set up my next server, so the issue of lots of small files won't be > > nearly as big. > > mdbox? Is this a single file per mail folder? It's multiple mails per f

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 07:06:24 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > btrfs isn't horrible, but it basically hasn't been optimized at all. > The developers are mainly focused on getting it to not destroy your > data, with mixed success. An obvious example of this is that if you > read a file from a pair of mi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:28:08 AM CEST Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/6/2017, 2:12:00 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I had a large partition with reiserfs. > > Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory. > > > > Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained > > a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:18:33 AM CEST Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/6/2017, 8:53:27 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 171005 christos kotsis wrote: > >> I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance > >> over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. > > > > I've long relied on ReiserFS for e

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 05:18:33 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> Anyone have any experience with comparing performance with either btrfs >> or ZFS against either ReiserFS or XFS for a maildir based mail server? > > I tried btrfs on a mail server and i

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 05:18:33 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > Anyone have any experience with comparing performance with either btrfs > or ZFS against either ReiserFS or XFS for a maildir based mail server? I tried btrfs on a mail server and it was unbearably slow. Disabling copy-on-write made a big diff

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/6/2017, 2:12:00 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I had a large partition with reiserfs. > Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory. > > Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained > a huge (millions) amount of files, > but having an fsck become > impossible

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/6/2017, 8:53:27 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 171005 christos kotsis wrote: >> I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance >> over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. > I've long relied on ReiserFS for everything except /boot > & have never had any problems with my files or driv

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Friday, 6 October 2017 19:12:00 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I had a large partition with reiserfs. >> Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory. >> >> Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained a huge >> (millions) amount of files, but havin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread Mick
On Friday, 6 October 2017 19:12:00 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > I had a large partition with reiserfs. > Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory. > > Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained a huge > (millions) amount of files, but having an fsck become im

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread pat
On 2017-10-06 20:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 5 October 2017 22:45:50 GMT+02:00, christos kotsis wrote: I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. On 5 Oct 2017 11:32 pm, "christos kotsis" wrote: If the big data are used often,and I/O p

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 5 October 2017 22:45:50 GMT+02:00, christos kotsis wrote: >I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance over ext3, 4 >when >dealing with small files. > >On 5 Oct 2017 11:32 pm, "christos kotsis" >wrote: > >If the big data are used often,and I/O performance is desirable, then I >wo

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 171005 christos kotsis wrote: >> I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance >> over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. > > I've long relied on ReiserFS for everything except /boot > & have never had any problems with my files

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread Philip Webb
171005 christos kotsis wrote: > I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance > over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. I've long relied on ReiserFS for everything except /boot & have never had any problems with my files or drives. I have many small files + a few big PDFs -- perhap

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-05 Thread christos kotsis
I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. On 5 Oct 2017 11:32 pm, "christos kotsis" wrote: If the big data are used often,and I/O performance is desirable, then I would go for two partitions. One would be either ext3 or ext4, with huge b

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-05 Thread christos kotsis
If the big data are used often,and I/O performance is desirable, then I would go for two partitions. One would be either ext3 or ext4, with huge block size, while the second could be one of two with small block size(minimum 1024). On 5 Oct 2017 10:46 pm, wrote: Hi, Installing gentoo on new lap

[gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-05 Thread pat
Hi, Installing gentoo on new laptop and it has 2TB disk. I want to use 1.8TB for data where will be big files and also huge amount of small files, thus I want to ask which FS is best for this. Until now I've used reiserfs on cca 0.5TB partition, but I don't know if it's also good choice for t