Curtis Maloney wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
Actually - yes. Same problem. But the solution is to use the Reiser Filesystem. It doesn't have the ext3 problem.
Now, I don't want to start a religious war, but...
Ext2 has the advantages that 1) it can fall back to ext2 in recovery cases, and 2) because of that, it has all the well-tested ext2 recovery tools available.
People I know who've used Reiser say it's wonderfuly fast, but if it corrupts, well... save your time, and go straight to restoring your backups.
Also, take a look at the tune2fs options. I understand -O dir_index will set it to use a b-tree index for faster handling of large directories.
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
I've been using it for 5 years and it works great. It specifically eliminates the speed problems of Maildir where you have thousands of files in a single directory. And it has infinite inodes so you never run out of them. Reiser is ideal for email systems.
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