Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-12 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:46, mb wrote: > At 17:54 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > > >I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 ) > >someone told be I should reformat my partition in Reiserfs rather that > >ext3 and I will get a great perlformance improvement > > ..unti

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Kendrick Vargas
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Oliver Jones wrote: > Speaking of FS corruption. In the past I've had corruption occur with > Reiser FS for no readily apparent reason. I've never had the same thing > happen with ext2. And until recently I've never had it happen with > ext3. Recently though I did have a w

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Oliver Jones
Speaking of FS corruption.  In the past I've had corruption occur with Reiser FS for no readily apparent reason.  I've never had the same thing happen with ext2.  And until recently I've never had it happen with ext3.  Recently though I did have a workstation corrupt it's ext3 /usr/bin director

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Jules Agee
For what it's worth, I spoke with an employee of Sendmail, Inc. about eighteen months ago. At the time, for their MUA they were using an old 1.x.something version of Cyrus-imapd that they had been patching and maintaining for some time, but of course it uses a very similar storage format to cur

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Avtar Gill
Craig Ringer wrote: Some people swear by XFS - and it /does/ work brilliantly with LVM - but there have been reports of unreliability and FS corruption. Could you please provide some links to these reports? Thanks.

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Pollywog
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:15:16 -0800 David R Bosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW: > > We've been running our ~1200 user server on reiserfs/RedHat for 2 years or > so now with no filesystem problems. In fact everyone I know that uses > linux for any purpose uses reiser as their standard fs.

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Pascal Gienger
mb wrote: PS I know some people say XFS, JFS etc are brilliant but my local experience is that although they may be faster in Linux 2.4, they are more prone to corruption.. (haven't tried either in the last 6 months tho') As for XFS, I never had any problems with it (Version 1.2.0). We are runni

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread David R Bosso
FWIW: We've been running our ~1200 user server on reiserfs/RedHat for 2 years or so now with no filesystem problems. In fact everyone I know that uses linux for any purpose uses reiser as their standard fs. It's been fast and reliable for us. We'll be migrating to a new box running 2.2.2 on

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Alain Williams
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:46:04PM +, mb wrote: > At 17:54 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > > >I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 ) > >someone told be I should reformat my partition in Reiserfs rather that > >ext3 and I will get a great perlformance improvemen

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread mb
At 17:54 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: >I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 ) >someone told be I should reformat my partition in Reiserfs rather that >ext3 and I will get a great perlformance improvement ..until you get a hardware failure and your entire mail sto

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Bennett Crowell
We have been using JFS, which has worked quite well for us. This is on a Dell 2650 running Redhat 9. Bennett Crowell --On Friday, January 9, 2004 22:46 +0800 Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 ) s

Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Craig Ringer
Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 ) someone told be I should reformat my partition in Reiserfs rather that ext3 and I will get a great perlformance improvement I noticed a significant performance improvement when moving from ext3 to reise

Is Reiserfs better than ext3

2004-01-09 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hello all, I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 ) someone told be I should reformat my partition in Reiserfs rather that ext3 and I will get a great perlformance improvement Is that so Thanks Ram