On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:49 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's been a long while since I followed ReiserFS development closely, > *however*, this issue used to be a common problem ReiserFS - when > free space starts to drop below 10%, performace takes a big hit. So > performance improved when space was cleared up. >
To be fair to Reiserfs, many UNIX filesystems have done this on purpose, all the way back to FFS I think. Once free space drops below 10%, they change their allocation scheme to favor efficiency over speed. Probably this behavior doesn't make sense on a 120GB disk with 11GB free. But it certainly does on a 300MB disk when you get down to 30 ;-) Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
