Reiser also has a nolog option, which I didn't try. There are quite a
few more knobs to tweak for all the filesystems.
Try mounting with:
noatime,nodiratime,notail,data=journal
That's what we use and consistently get the best performance with. I've
posted previous experiences and thoughts with filesystems here:
http://www.irbs.net/internet/info-cyrus/0412/0042.html
http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2006-October/024119.html
Rob
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