From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266139AbUBKSzu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:55:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266162AbUBKSzu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:55:50 -0500 Received: from ti200710a080-3502.bb.online.no ([80.213.45.174]:50927 "EHLO ford.pronto.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266139AbUBKSzs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:55:48 -0500 To: Bryan Whitehead Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm@bitmover.com Subject: Re: reiserfs for bkbits.net? References: <200402111523.i1BFNnOq020225@work.bitmover.com> <20040211161358.GA11564@favonius> <402A747C.8020100@jpl.nasa.gov> From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:55:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <402A747C.8020100@jpl.nasa.gov> (Bryan Whitehead's message of "Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:29:16 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bryan Whitehead writes: > Måns Rullgård wrote: >> 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. >> If someone does any tests, I'd be interested to hear about the >> results. >> > > http://pcbunn.cacr.caltech.edu/gae/3ware_raid_tests.htm > > They needed 200MByte/sec disk transfer speed. this is how they got it. I was thinking of typical BK workloads on less extreme hardware, in my case software RAID 0+1 on normal IDE disks. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se