From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EL2qd-0002MS-Uw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:09:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8THxAHE006486; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:59:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8THn68a009839 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:49:07 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EL2dy-0002Ck-6W for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:56:30 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EL2dB-0001GF-OF for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:55:42 +0200 Received: from adsl-68-74-186-158.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.186.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:55:41 +0200 Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-186-158.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:55:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Reiserfs speed Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:54:34 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ll1fhi91.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87oe6d5q8s.fsf@newsguy.com> <200509281552.17882.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <877jd15mal.fsf@newsguy.com> <433AE2F3.4080205@asmallpond.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-186-158.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yKoEq4icyIdnJaO1/1KBQAUb8uI= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8c84e3c6-b379-420c-b4b6-2dc5f6e517c0 X-Archives-Hash: 3f7232b0d02a4419499a568a1a22e5d7 Richard Fish writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >>I am using reiserfs but only on trial basis. I've noticed what >>appears to be quite a large increase in time needed for fs intensive >>things like du or rm -rf as compared to ext3 but I've done no real >>comparison testing. >> >>Have you noticed that too? >> >> > > This is normal, and it's a feature. Reiserfs uses hash values to speed [...] Thanks for the interesting (snipped) info. > You can 'fix' this by tar'ing, reformatting, and restoring the > filesystem, which will have the effect of ordering files on disk > according to their hash value. I was thinking more along the line of fixing it by reverting to ext3. I'm not a power user or even a very knowledgable user. But am something of a long time user, and since `96, I've used ext2 or 3 exclusively. I don't recall a single incident of losing or corrupting files that was attributable to ext[23]. I'd heard reiserfs was `better' but apparently the things its better at aren't things I use or notice. Is it possible to revert to ext3 from single boot mode or mounted from a live cd without a lot of hassles? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list