Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 06:26:06 -0700 (PDT) | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: ReiserFS patch for 2.4.0-test2 |
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > The 2.4 series is slower than the 2.2 series for FS usage regardless of whether > > ext2 or reiserfs. The slowness is believed to not be a reiserfs feature but to > > be due to the upper layers above reiserfs. There might be some benefit to their > > becoming more systematic in testing performance of VFS/VM before accepting > > patches, and testing like we do. If that is desired, I can probably spare some > > of Yura's time for that. > > The problem must be part of reiserfs because my system is totally unusable > when writing to disk with reiserfs 3.6.10/kernel 2.4.0-test3-8 and it has > been that way in all 2.4 kernels. I had ext2 on my partitions before I > switched to reiserfs and ext2 was a LOT faster on both reads and writes. > Please describe the programs you are using, we don't see this with 3.6.11 (our latest patch against 2.4.0-test3)
-chris
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