[61857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BMITU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Sep 7 01:48:09 2003
To: Jim Shankland <nanog@shankland.org>
Cc: "'Nanog List (E-mail)'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Sep 2003 22:11:41 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 01:46:40 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 22:11:41 PDT, Jim Shankland said:
> Hans Reiser would argue that that reflects a limitation of the
> filesystem, rather than of qmail; and that apps should not
> have to code around such unreasonable filesystem limitations.
> And reiserfs goes to considerable effort to achieve good
> performance on directories containing thousands of small
> files.
>
> This would imply that if you're going to use qmail in a high-volume
> environment, you might consider using reiserfs, also.
I'd recommend also tracking/testing reiser4 in your testbed - the early
benchmarks on it are quite astounding....
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