On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
Just curious - have any of you tried the ReiserFS file system with Maildir? I
would think that it should make maildir a lot faster and more efficient.
i think reiser has a lot of cool ideas, but i haven't tried it.
even with reiser you need to move away from the POSIX API to make a huge
dent in the scalability of maildirs... you need to start amortizing
multiple file operations per system call for one thing. (and there is a
sys_reiser or something proposed for this, but i haven't looked at it).
but that still doesn't help all the dcache and inode cache overhead in the
kernel... and backup systems will still continue to blow chunks when
presented with 100Ms of inodes...
-dean
Reiser doesn't use INodes and appears to have infinite inodes. I've
never used maildir but if I did I'd want to use Reiser on it because
that's where Reiser is supposed to really gain.