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

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:15:48PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:

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

Yes, it is rather unfortunate. But if your system doesn't panic/lock up
and has an UPS xfs works well.
 
> 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…

I'm hoping for a GPL-compatible zfs license in a year or two.

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