LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

[Gerard]

We have also come across the situation where we needed to make a move from
file systems. We ended up going with Veritas file system which we saw the
greatest increase in performance from simply changing the main file system.
It was a big win when we realized the file system actually didn't cost
anything.

On 10/5/07, Robert Banz <banz at umbc.edu> wrote:
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> On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:01, John Madden wrote:
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> >> I think that this is partly because ext3 does more aggressive read
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> >> (which would be a mixed blessing under heavy load), partly because
> >> reiserfs suffers from fragmentation. I imagine that there is
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> >> tipping point under the sort of very heavy load that Fastmail see.
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> > I second that - reiserfs seems to be truly horrible in write-heavy
> > situations.  Worse, a backup of our remaining reiserfs partition takes
> > *days* to complete -- 165GB at ~500k/s.  And this is a 32-disk
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> > fibre channel.
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> I think what truly scares me about reiser is those rather regular
> posts to various mailing lists I'm on saying "my reiser fs went poof
> and lost all my data, what should I do?"
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> -rob
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