[OpenAFS] Dreadful metadata performance

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Jamie Walker wrote:

> I discovered that volumes on a non-RAIDed ext2 vice partition on our
> 500MHz fileserver box were up to 3 times faster than ext3 on an
> Megaraid'ed RAID1 volume on the main 1.3GHz box. Moving the vicepa
> partitions to ext2 on the main box results in a very noticeable
> performance improvement but only from 'really dreadful' to 'dreadful'.

I heard a recommendation last week for reiserfs as a fileserver (NOT as a
cache manager) backend. On the face of it it seems sensible.