On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:37:45PM -0700, J Sloan wrote: > If you are daring enough, prelink+2.5.6x > is _seriously_ snappy - Prelinking works great. One thing that I've wondered about, but haven't had time to benchmark, is whether a full backup/restore (poor man's layout optimizer) has any noticeable effect on performance, with or without the Ext3 Orlov allocator. rpm copies a file here and a file there, whereas after a backup/restore, one can create the tree in a well-prescribed order (typically depth-first or breadth-first). I have several machines which I've "cloned" from a clean install using a boot disk and rsync, but they are unfortunately all on different hardware, and thus not comparable. Hans Reiser plans a background "repacker" for reiser4 that will optimize layout. Regards, Bill Rugolsky
