Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS vs. Ext3fs ... :-)

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 25 Sep 2001 8:58 am, you wrote:

> I tried RedHat 7.2 recently with Ext3 on a P266 machine. On that platform
> its a load of doggy-doo! Even though I had only put it on the base
> directories (/usr was on another disk and still running under ext2), the
> speed of operation was cut to about half what I was getting with RH6.2 and
> ext2. Which system does Mandrake 8.0 use - that seems about as fast as
> RH6.2?

There are different modes of operation for ext3, "ordered" being the slowest. 
Check the docs for speed/reliability tradeoffs.
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