On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
reiserfs does not store inodes as compact as ext3. It allocates inodes dynamically. As result reiserfs inodes get spread over whole filesystem. Also reiserfs tries to store file bodies in the same block as file's inode. As result one reiserfs block usually contains inodes than ext[23] inode block does. So, to stat each file of directory reiserfs has to perform more disk reads and to do more disk head seek than a filesystem which stores inodes compactly in preallocated disk area.
Is this performance problem with stat heavy load fixed in Reiser4? Thanks, Grzegorz Kulewski
