Re: reiserfs?
firstly sorry about the *useless* e-mail, I hit Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C
(I'm using pine), I only noticed when I saw the "message sent"
message....bugger :)
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:
>
> It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
>noticeable amount more electric power. Rebalancing only has to happen when
>something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
>all. Every file system has some CPU overhead for management. Reiserfs
>doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
>Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.
>
I was only wondering if it sorted out the tree whilst it was idle,
however after your comments it looks like I have no problems.
> Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.
>
looks like I'll be doing ReiserFS when I'm back at university, however
not till my exams are over :(
Alex
PS. I noticed you have a nslug.ca e-mail, you know Ben Armstrong (aka
Fishy in the xpilot circles?), only curious......
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