Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:20:04 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@over.ru>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advanced file systems for BSD Message-ID: <20000229132004.G21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002292137110.92688-100000@login-1.eunet.no>; from mbendiks@eunet.no on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:38:12PM %2B0100 References: <20000229194152.D42254@rohrbach.de> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002292137110.92688-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
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* Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> [000229 13:08] wrote: > > the abbrviation lfs was a general reference to log structured > > filesystems, which reiserfs as of the last versions also is when it > > comes to journaling. > > Er. As I recall, Reiser FS uses preserve lists, which basically means that > it writes slightly out of place and bottom-up, which gives you the > advantages of journalling without losing quite that much performance. Since no one seems to read it: http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/8_1.html Preserve lists substantially hamper performance for files in the 1-10k size range. We are re-evaluating them. Reiser is supposed to address small files with the most efficiency, considering it's only 32bit you'd expect it to, however this seems to not be the case. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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