Mount options NOATIME and NODIRATIME

But I don't see those on the current Reiser doc pages.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Phil Tully
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:28 PM
> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] What file system type to use for LVM ?
> 
> 
> David Boyes wrote
> 
> In a earlier life I had implemented Reiserfs for a series  
> large (200Gb
> ) samba filesystems.  We experienced significant problems at the peak
> access times (9am and 4pm)  after many months of hair pulling we found
> the culprit.  The last referenced field was being updated and locked,
> with the lock being held much longer than expected.
> 
> There is an option to turn off updating the last referenced 
> field but I
> can't find my notes from 3 years ago..  When this was resolved we
> acheived up to very reasonable response time with hundreds of 
> concurrent
> users.
> 
> Now to find that setting....
> 
> Phil
> 
> >>Just trying to gauge which is the more popular filesystem 
> type to use
> >>
> >>
> >for
> >
> >
> >>logical volumes,  reiserfs or ext3 and why.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Reiserfs is more popular, because it is the default in SuSE. We've
> >observed a fair number of cases where reiserfs fails at very high I/O
> >rates, so we tend to use ext3 in places where we know it's 
> going to get
> >beaten hard. reiserfs performs slightly better than ext3 on 
> filesystems
> >that will have a lot of small files (that's its design point 
> anyway) so
> >you may need to mix and match.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Seems like reiserfs will allow resizing through the YaST GUI, whilst
> >>
> >>
> >ext3
> >
> >
> >>filesystems forces CLI interaction.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Install EVMS and use evmsn in place of the YaST storage gui. Then you
> >get a nice front end for both, and a whole lot more.
> >
>
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