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Subject: Re: Scalability metrics?
From: Liviu Daia (Liviu.Daiaimar.ro)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 23:56:32 CST

On 15 February 2000, Craig Sanders <castaz.net.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 11:05:13PM +0200, Liviu Daia wrote:
> > > SGI's XFS does (and I have personally witnessed it handling
> > > 100,000 files in a single directory without any problems
> > > whatsoever), but it is not yet available outside of SGI, except
> > > for some source code that they've released but which has not yet
> > > been incorporated by anyone I know of.
> >
> > Reiserfs is supposed to have both. It doesn't appear to be stable
> > yet though.
>
> reiserfs has been extremely stable in my testing of it so far (i'm
> using it mainly for squid cache drives on large squid proxy servers,
> also on one web server and one postgresql server). the proxies have
> been extensively tested and are running as our main proxy servers, the
> web server has had less testing, and i've only just started testing
> the postgres server. i've had no problems at all so far.
[...]

    There was a thread about it on slashdot a few days ago. One of the
official maintainers said it still "crashes under heavy load" (whatever
that means), while ext2 didn't have any problem in identical conditions.
Not There Yet. [TM]

    Regards,

    Liviu Daia 

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