On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:25:47AM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > why is that? thought reiser was faster than ext3 while ext3 would be > considered more stable (in general). Reiser has this "tail packing" option, as well as some other optimizations that benefit sites with lots of small files (best example: Usenet feeds). However, this can come at a price for really LARGE files (as a DB would need). > Before getting ways off topic: where can I find a good comparison / > discussion on different filesystems? Checkout http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/fs/ Since noone has mentioned XFS, let me throw in my recommendation for XFS. XFS (like, probably, IBM's JFS) is a top-notch filesystem. Try it out in your scenario, you might like it. Ajay _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
