Chris,
It 'feels' faster on my NFS bonnie benchmarks. I still see some
degradataion in speed on larger files -- but I think that is a different
'feature' of the filesystem.
512M RAM 2.4.11pre1 NFSV3 server lightly loaded
ReiserFS version 3.6.25 (v2 format filesys)
100M network -- solaris 8 cli
Hello everyone,
2.4.11pre1 has some significant changes which affect almost everything that
touches a disk in linux. The buffer cache is now backed by an address
space per device (made possible by Andrea's blkdev changes in 2.4.10), and
many cleanups were done by Linus and Al Viro.
In every te