--=-P6aoLH5OdWP5pIvSEh6R Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:30, Skylar Thompson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:28:11AM +0100, Joe Radinger wrote: > > hi > > i got 2 questions and maybe someone could shed some light: > >=20 > > a) i'm using kernel 2.4.17 and use ext3 in it. is it possible that the > > whole system is slower than with ext2? i switched back to ext2 (great > > feature!!!) and the system's response seemed somewhat better. > > should/could there be such a effect as double writing of journaled data= ? >=20 > It kind of depends on your hardware and disk usage. In many cases, howeve= r, > ext3 has higher performance because it can serialize operations. hmm hardware is a p2 350 mhz with 120gb (linux) + 20gb (beos and windows thus not used :))), with 256 mb ram.=20 its not the fastest machine on earth, but its ok for normal user-stuff, compiling and so on. system load drops never under 1.0 as i almost everytime compile (niced). average file size is not too big, as i dont have to much big files, but some directories are quite crowded (thousands of files). =20 maybe i should try and benchmark my system. any suggestions? > > i didnt activate debugging (jbd). > >=20 > > b) is reiserfs compatible with ext3? >=20 > You can have it compiled into the same kernel and run it on the same > computer as ext3, if that's what you mean. >=20 > > is it possible use both journaling filesystems at the same time (of > > course on different partitions :)) >=20 > Yes. I'm doing that right now, in addition to using XFS for source > libraries and JFS for temporary stuff. >=20 > > i think i remember some talks about namespace-collisions. >=20 > I don't recall anything like that. I've been using both ext3 and ReiserFS > since the 2.4.5 kernel. Maybe it was before that?=20 sure it was some time ago. > --=20 > -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@attglobal.net) thanks for answering (to all of you) joe --=-P6aoLH5OdWP5pIvSEh6R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8Xo6PyOLl//lX6PMRAlLdAKDGiEmFq9j9lwOaY38uAA5S5fWVEQCfY4p9 j0+eBDSEa0vakBUdTn+99us= =CdxA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-P6aoLH5OdWP5pIvSEh6R--
