creating one file per mail message, or how to make rm -rf take quadratic time

[Aristotle Pagaltzis]

* Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> [2008-06-23 11:50]:
> When using XFS make sure your system is backed up by an UPS,
> and doesn't crash. I wouldn't use it as a root filesystem
> otherwise.

Wow. What use is journaling when a system crash leaves your
filesystem corrupted anyway?

I guess it’s down to JFS… except that JFS reportedly performs
poorly with voluminous trees (although still better than ext3,
as far as I understood).

So maybe in the end the conclusion is to use reiser4 for the
working directory and keep a regularly-repacked git store on
a more robust filesystem. (You can set the `GIT_DIR` environment
variable to tell git commands where to look for it.)

That doesn’t address the issue that though fast, both reiserfs
and reiser4 are very CPU-hungry, though.

Pity that btrfs is basically just an alpha even now…

Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>