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Subject: Re: ReiserFS was Re: performance statistics
From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen (rask-postfixkampsax.k-net.dk)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 16:12:04 CDT

Den 08-Maj-00 21:40:34 skrev Robert Hentosh fĝlgende om "ReiserFS was Re: performance statistics":

>Has anyone used ReiserFS in production with postscript?

   No, we don't have any printers and thus no printer queue. ;-)

>I breifly used it about 7 months ago. At that time it was on a development
>server that contained many headers and object files. It cut build times in
>half. But then I did a fail test of powering down the box while a build on
>the partition. With ext2 this would cause an fsck on reboot. But with
>reiserfs it failed... when you would run the fsck ... it would fail. The
>partition was not recoverable except from backup.

   That's your problem. Don't reiserfsck the partition, just mount it.
Until reiserfsck is updated to be reiserfs compatible, it is very dangerous
to use, and a major point of reiserfs is that you don't need to run any
fsck in first place. So turn off fsck in /etc/fstab.

>If this works for you ... what SCSI controller are you using? (Me... adaptec
>2940U2W)

>Anyone use reiser for a mailserver?

   Not yet, but an onboard Adaptec 2940UW, squid, approx. two million daily
requests, three 4.5 GB SCSI cache disks, two with ext2fs and one with
reiserfs, we've not seen problems yet after two weeks. The plan is to
gradually switch to ReiserFS when convenient oppotunities arise.

Regards,

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