[ale] ext3 v reiserfs

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Sun Sep 14 19:47:03 EDT 2003


Anybody using Maildir likely will.  I currently have   54789 files in my 
personal Maildir, and I'd bet 90% of them are under 4k.  It works great, by 
the way. 

David
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:53, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>
> According to Gentoo Linux' installation instructions, for file sizes of
> 4K and below, reiserfs performance can be 10-15 times faster and it says
> it scales well.   I guess the question becomes, when will you have
> occasion to push around a large quantity of files like that?
>

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David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>



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