Now I haven't heard of that one before but possibly Reiserfs was designed
with more modern hardware in mind.
If the disk controller cache is very small, then all the Reiserfs fidgetting
will be translated to hardware activity ("thrashing"). More modern
controllers have a fairly big buffer in the disk controller which would help
to iron out this activity.I'd suggest to go back to EXT2 on older hardware. It's quick and reliable and you just have to put up with the fsck upon startup. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 21 December 2001 0:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] Suse disk thrashing > > > > I've just done a new Suse install on an old HP 266 and just for fun > selected ReiserFS. > > All went perfectly well except the disks thrash like crazy > and it seems to > take ages to do anything much. Starting YaST took almost a minute. ---------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ---------------------- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
