Read-only ReiserFS support for FreeBSD 5.x

Jean-Sébastien Pédron jspedron at club-internet.fr
Wed Oct 20 03:28:57 PDT 2004


Xin LI wrote:
> ReiserFS, however, *does* provide better performance when dealing with zillions
> of small files.  I don't want to debate whether a well-designed system should
> actually utilize this, but I believe it would be beneficial to bring some
> different ideas we can take as reference :-)
> 
> My intention is, however, to write a new (or to improve our existing)
> filesystem which is optimized for large files (e.g. databases), while
> providing "fairly good" performance when dealing with many small files.

I agree this could benefit to our filesystem. The user could also have
the choice between a few solutions.

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron
http://www.dumbbell-fr.net/

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