From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265886AbUBKQSh (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:18:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265896AbUBKQSh (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:18:37 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:31213 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265886AbUBKQSg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:18:36 -0500 From: Nikita Danilov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16426.21977.976512.628437@laputa.namesys.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:18:33 +0300 To: sander@humilis.net Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: reiserfs for bkbits.net? In-Reply-To: <20040211161358.GA11564@favonius> References: <200402111523.i1BFNnOq020225@work.bitmover.com> <20040211161358.GA11564@favonius> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sander writes: > Larry McVoy wrote (ao): > > We're moving openlogging back to our offices and I'm experimenting > > with filesystems to see what gives the best performance for BK usage. > > Reiserfs looks pretty good and I'm wondering if anyone knows any > > reasons that we shouldn't use it for bkbits.net. Also, would it help > > if the journal was on a different disk? Most of the bkbits traffic is > > read so I doubt it. > > > > Please cc me, I'm not on the list. > > I've cc'ed the Reiserfs mailinglist. > > IME Reiserfs is a fast and stable fs. If you have the time to benchmark > ext3, reiserfs, jfs and xfs (and ..) with bk then you would know first > hand which fs is best for you. It might be worth the time. I can add that concurrent bk clone of kernel repositories is very good file system stress tool that we are using while debugging reiser4. > > With kind regards, Sander > Nikita.