Re: Reiser vs EXT3

Samuel Flory (sflory@rackable.com)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:23:58 -0800


Robert L. Harris wrote:

> Still working on that replacement mail server and a new rumor has hit
>the mix. It follows that reiserfs is much faster than ext3 (made ext3,
>not converted from ext2 if it matters) and this is causing some
>problems. On a 200Gig filesystem is this truely an issue?
>
>
>

Have you tried different ext3 journalling modes? Ordered is pretty
slow in many cases. You might want to try writeback instead. The
downside is that you might end up losing resently written changes in the
event of a crash. Try mounting with "-o data=writeback".

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