Re: 2.6.21.1 - 97% wait time on IDE operations

From: Clemens Koller
Date: Sun May 27 2007 - 14:18:17 EST


Hi, Alan!

Alan Cox schrieb:
yeah, and they say unix FSes don't need defragmentation.... my bottom...

Provided they don't get within about 5-10% of full a lot of the time Unix
file systems generally don't - especially with preallocators. Reiser3 is
not a traditional unix file system, its very different to almost any
other fs, and it does need defragmenting.

Just FYI:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/defrag/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/davtools/
defragmentation seems to be a minor issue.

After reiser3 (kernel 2.6.18.1 or so) crashed(*) badly with
some data loss on a production server can you recommed
a _safe_ and good performing filesystem for an
compile and test server (lots of small files).

(*) rm ~/Maildir while it was fed with courier-imap and
pressed CTRL-C to interrupt that trashed some of the files in
~/Maildir. It needed a --rebuild-tree.


Best greets,

Clemens Koller
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