Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:00:49 +0200 | From | Peter Niemayer <> | Subject | Re: ext3 throughput woes on certain (possibly heavily fragmented) files |
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Hans Reiser wrote:
> Sometimes it is best to confess that one does not have the expertise > appropriate for answering a question. Someone on our mailing list > studied it carefully though. Perhaps they can comment.
You can find all about the diploma thesis Constantin Loizides wrote on that topic under
http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~loizides/reiserfs/
Alas, while fragmentation effects are measurable, their real-world-impact is so heavily masked by even the slightest differences in the VFS of different Linux kernel versions and the usage pattern of applications that it is hard to make a definitive general statement.
Regards,
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