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On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> |
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> wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: |
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> [gentoo-user] Help - |
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> system reboots while compiling)': |
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> > All in all, the odds are tipping in favour of ext4 |
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> I don't need quite such large filesystems as my largest is just under |
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> 4TB, and my system will probably max out around 7TB, but I need a |
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> filesystem that is maintained (Namesys had basically abandoned |
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> reiserfs in favor of reiser4 well before Hans' current troubles |
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> started), and has good all-around performance characteristics (I have |
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> both large source trees, invloving a multitude of directories and |
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> small-ish files AND a video "library" containing very large files in |
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> my /home). I would also like to see some support for the "tail |
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> packing" of resiserfs -- It's not that important, but last I checked |
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> one saved over 100MB by the portage tree on reiserfs AND |
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> mini-benchmarks like emerge --sync and |
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> find '/usr/portage' > /dev/null actually ran faster than ext3. |
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In my experience that's a representative data set for a Linux geek :-) |
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Mine's very similar and I too find that reiser3 performs better all |
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round. Unpacking 35000 smallish files in a kernel tree is no small |
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task... |
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> That said, I'm very encouraged about ext4, and will probably migrate |
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> some unimportant data over to that filesystem in near future and |
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> perform my own bonnie++ tests. |
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How do you plan to get around the decidedly non-trivial task of getting |
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a decent fsck on a filesystem where plugins handle the metadata? |
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Don't get me wrong, I think reiser4 is a good idea, and it's well |
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thought out. But everything comes at a price, and in this case it's |
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fsck |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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