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.
Hans
Juan Casero wrote:
>
> I tried it yesterday and it seemed rather sluggish when accessing disk files.
> It might be that the driver is not tuned (can't really speculate) or that my
> paranoia jumped into overdrive. Either way I moved back to the 2.2.15 kernel
> and will stay there for a while since this machine is workhorse in the office.
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> Juan
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> >
> > > Chris Mason wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Juan Casero wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi -
> > > > >
> > > > > May I ask if the reiserfs patch for the 2.40-test kernels is useable? I know
> > > > > the whole spiel about the 2.40-test2 kernels being development kernels but I
> > > > > find them to be fairly stable for desktop use. I currenty have a Mandrake 7.1
> > > > > system with a ReiserFS root partition. I want to run the newer 2.4.0-test
> > > > > series of kernels because of the improve support for my IDE chipset but I need
> > > > > to make sure that the patch won't trash my root file system altogether. Please
> > > > > don't take offense at my question since I know I am wading into deep water here.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Remember that the reiserfs patches for 2.4.x are only experimental and are unreliable
> > > according to the readme that comes with them. Also reiserfsck is not finished yet for
> > > this version (a sore point with me as it has already corrupted a couple of directories...)
> > >
> >
> > Ummm, it isn't supposed to corrupt directories. Could you give some
> > details on how it happened?
> >
> > -chris
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