Re: reiser vs. xfs

Can you clarify a few things?

Are you referring to the file system that would be formatted onto the
exported iscsi lun or the file system that would house exported iscsi
luns?

Are you envisioning multiple systems accessing the same iscsi exported lun?

Josh

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Robert Parkhurst
<robert.parkhurst@...> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I was talking with a friend earlier and we were talking about possibly
> implementing Linux into his work place--it'd be a distributed (iscsi)
> setup.  The need is for a high-performance filesystem that works REALLY well
> with small files (<4KB).  Two came to mind:  XFS and Reiser.
>
> I personally like XFS better, but I think in his situation, Reiser would be
> the better solution since it handles better where lots of small files are
> concerned.
>
> My question is, is Reiser multi-threaded like XFS?  I'd heard somewhere that
> one of the reasons why XFS performed so well was because it was a
> multi-threaded filesystem.  Is the same true for Reiser?  And if not, what
> possible performance issues could he face if he were to implement it?
>
> The scenario here is to have 20-40 workstations hitting the file server (at
> gigabit speed each).  Each workstation will be reading from large data files
> (like word documents, excel spreadsheets, and outlook .pst files) and
> extracting all the information from them and turning them into LOTS of very
> small images (1 printable page each) along with a very small file containing
> the metadata for the extracted file.  So a 1GB .pst file could turn into
> 10,000 1KB separate email files along with 10,000 1KB metadata files.  So
> there's LOTS of I/O going on.
>
>
> Thanks for any help and assistance you guys can provide!
>
>
>
> Robert
>
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