On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 21:10, Monte Milanuk wrote: > I guess the burning question in my mind right now, since I'm still getting > all the pieces together, is this: Do LVM and ext3 play well together?
I'm running ext3 on an LVM using a patched version of Red Hat's last kernel (2.4.9). Haven't had any trouble with it yet. > know SuSE has been supporting LVM and ReiserFS for a while now, and the > book I have is from around RedHat 7.0 / kernel 2.4.0 or so, and as such > only discusses resizing reiserfs partitions on LVM, not ext3 per se. I > really kind of need ext3 (or rather, can *not* use ReiserFS) for this > machine, as the mail client I use is sylpheed, which stores each message > as a separate file ala MH, IIRC. ReiserFS does not do well w/ this type > of scenario, as it literally seems to take 2-3 times as long to open a > folder or to scan the folder trees on ReiserFS as on ext3. So ReiserFS is > out. That's funny. ReiserFS is supposed to be highly optimized for situations where you have very large numbers of small files.
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