[OpenAFS] Dreadful metadata performance

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Jamie Walker wrote:

>
> On 1/04/2004, at 10:47 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm investigating that on the backup box as we speak, but I'd still
> love to know why performance has changed so much from last year to this
> year. :/

semi-educated guess:

your fileservers are beechwood aged now, and just like it does for beer it
makes for crappy performance from ext{2,3} (worse for 3).