Be warned that I've noticed problems using reiserfs on LVM partitions.
Writing to the reiserfs file system seems to cause bdflush to jump up to
between 30-70% cpu usage and thus slows the machine down considerably.
Reading is fine of course.
Note that I haven't yet chased this problem up with the reiser mailing list
or website yet. I only hit the problem yesterday and haven't had a chance.
So this may be a non-issue as I'm using the implementation that came with
Mandrake 7.2 - not the latest.
I've had no problems with raw Reiserfs partitions.
My 2c
Tony...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael F. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 March 2001 21:54
> To: Ian Tester; Robert Reid
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Reiser FS
>
>
> Glad this all came up, I am about to rebuild my machine...
> and I wanted to
> use ReiserFS, well was atleast looking at it.
>
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Robert Reid wrote:
> >
> > > I'm am considering putting ReiserFS onto my debian system
> when I put a
> > > 2.4.x kernel on. Can ResierFS be currently be used as a
> root partition
> > > or not?
> >
> > Root is fine. Just have it compiled into your kernel.
> >
> > The only problems I've had is with boot loaders. Support
> for ReiserFS in
> LILO
> > and GRUB are a little experimental at the moment, as far as
> I know. Just
> make a
> > small ~10M ext2 filesystem at the start of your disk for
> /boot. It makes
> things
> > simpler for other reasons as well.
> >
>
>
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