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Re: Backup from huge Maildirs



On Tue, 04 Sep 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:27:17PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Sep 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:13:28PM +0200, Oliver Hitz wrote:
> > > > ext3 is
> > > > much slower than reiserfs if you're handling directories containing huge
> > > > numbers of files.
> > > 
> > > Does this still hold for ext3 filesystems with directory hash enabled?
> > 
> > Yes, when you need to *enumerate* all files in a dir.  The hash trees make
> > it even worse, I think.
> 
> Where is the advantage of reiserfs then?

I don't know about reiserfs, my comment is for ext3 in hash tree mode, only.
I never tested reiserfs 3.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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