[OpenAFS] ReiserFS /vicep, general performance with lots of vols in single part?

Michael Loftis mloftis@wgops.com
Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:06:47 -0700


I received a number of very helpful responses, thanks everyone...if you 
continue to have any good info or recommendations, keep it coming.



--On Thursday, December 04, 2003 14:38 -0700 Michael Loftis 
<mloftis@wgops.com> wrote:

> OK I know it's probably been asked before but I can't seem to find
> anything recently.  Is anyone currently using a ReiserFS backed AFS
> Server?  I'm using one in a 'toy' environment at home, and I like the
> dynamic expansion capability, and the abiltiy to shrink the (offline)
> filesystem as well.
>
> Any performance benchmarks on ext3 v. reiser for AFS usage?
>
> One of the reasons I'm looking at reiser is because of the potentially
> staggering number of volumes I may have on a single partition
> (10k+)...with all the small VOL*.vol files in the /vicep?? I think that
> ext3 would get huge slowdowns.
>
> Anyone tried writing a patch to 'hash' the vol files?  Performance
> bottlenecks here/etc?
>
> TIA!!!
>
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