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Martin Schlemmer posted <1115715727.25756.8.camel@×××××××××.lan>, |
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excerpted below, on Tue, 10 May 2005 11:02:07 +0200: |
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> Problem with flat tree, is the search times might then suck even more, as |
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> last I heard, too many dirs/files in one directory have a huge speed |
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> penalty. |
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Yeah, sure, for ext2/3, but all those small files would suck big time in |
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ext2/3 anyway. Reiserfs doesn't have either issue, and should be perfect |
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for portage trees, even for those who still think the reliability isn't |
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there (I've been /very/ happy with it here, since the data=ordered |
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default went into the kernel for reiserfs, even when I had defective |
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memory and was hard-locking fairly frequently due to that), because |
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portage trees are a simple sync away from replacing anything lost. |
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I never remember which one it is, but either jfs or xfs has packed files |
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as a feature as well, IIRC, so the small file sizes works, altho I believe |
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it'd still have issues with high file-count dirs. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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