Hello everyone, I hope this is the right mailing list for my question, if not, please redirect me.
I have noticed that if I put my ~ on a ReiserFS partition, Pan (GNOME's newsreader) starts very slowly, taking about 75 seconds. If I move the same article cache onto an ext3 partition, Pan starts in less than 10 seconds. This confuses me, as I've read a lot of benchmarks and comments on the net which indicate that ReiserFS is faster than ext3 when handling lots of small files. Pan's article cache consists of lots of small files (approx. 70 MB, each file has only a few kilobytes) and, on my system, it should not be fragmented too much because I copied the files from an external source onto the empty volume. Asking this question on the German Linux newsgroup de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc[1] didn't lead to any hints about diagnosing this behaviour. Any ideas? Many thanks in advance Jürgen [1] http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc/browse_thread/thread/d60014be503abebd/
