On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:58:50PM +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote: > >I think this is because reiserfs is better handling a lot of small > >files, while ext3 performes better with a few big files. > > Is it possible that you are working with a fairly old linux > distribution? Today's ext3 shouldn't have these issues any longer, > otherwise Redhat wouldn't ship it as the only supported filesystem with > its Enterprise distributions. A modern 2.6er ext3 has indexes and > b-trees on top of the common ext3-layer, so even big directories > shouldn't be a problem any more.
Really? Nice. But you would have to re-create the ext3 filesystem with this newer 2.6 kernel, right? Or would tune2fs do the job given the right options? > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
