[Gllug] Linux equivalent of OS X filesystem Directory

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:52:58AM +0000, - Tethys wrote:

> Be careful here. There are likely to be people reading this list that
> will see that and think "I want better performance from my
> filesystem", and think about using ResierFS. Don't get me wrong, Hans
> had some nice ideas, but wasn't able to implement them in a reliable
> way[1]. To clarify: ReiserFS is good for losing your data. Nothing
> more. Avoid it at all costs.
> 
> Tet
> 
> [1] My jaw dropped when SuSE made it their default filesystem a while
> back (along with a number of professional filesystem hackers I know)

I put together a SuSE box a while back onto which the customer wanted
to put groupwise. The /mail file system I used ext3 ... but reformatted
as resierfs -- why ? Groupwise was creating directories with 1 million+
files / directory. Ext3 (then) did not handle it at all well.

So the workaround for groupwise stupidity was resierfs.

Before you shout at me: Yes there are better alternatives for each, but
it is what the customer wanted.

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