Re: performance of filesystem xattrs with Samba4

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 01:13:15 EST


tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


So while I sympathise with you wanting reiser4 to be tuned for "big"
storage, please remember that a good proportion of the installs are
likely to be running "in-memory" workloads.


I agree that in-memory workloads are important, and that is why we compress on flush rather than compressing on write for our compression plugin, and it is why we should spend some time optimizing reiser4 to make its code paths more lightweight for the in-memory case. At the same time, I think that the workloads where the filesystem matters the most are the ones that access the disk. With computers, in a large percentage of the time that people notice themselves waiting, it is the disk drive they are waiting on.

Sigh, there are so many things we should optimize for, and it will be years before we have hit all the important ones.
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