Hello

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:34 +0200, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> 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?
> 

Well, inode location in reiser4 changed comparing to reiserfs. reiser4
groups inodes of files of one directory together (reiserfs did not do
that), but still allocated disk space for inodes dynamically as
reiserfs.
So, I guess that reiser4 will be better than reiserfs, but 
still worse than ext[23]. Would you verify this guess it please?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Grzegorz Kulewski
> 
> 

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