Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under gentoo).
I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain file manipulation chores. Examples might be `du -sh' against several hundred MB or `rm -rf' in same manner. I didn't think to time the du part below but you can see what seems like a lengthy processing time for rm -rf. This is on an older P4 2ghz machine. I didn't see any abnormally heavy operations underway during this example so probably about normal number of processes and cpu being used by other processes. root # du -sh .snapshots 381M .snapshots root # time rm -rf .snapshots real 1m42.234s user 0m0.180s sys 0m9.696s Almost 2 minutes to rm -rf a few hundred MB. I don't have an ext3 fs to test against anymore but wondering if this is abnormally slow for reiserfs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
