recommending reiserfs?

[neil]

ow.mun.heng at wdc.com wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: neil [mailto:neilcuk at aol.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5:34 PM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>  
>I haven't used ReiserFS in production. In practice it's supposed to do
>intelligent block management to maximise the capacity of your storage. For
>example - if you specify blocks of 4k and your files end up being 1k or
>smaller the ReiserFS system will still used the remaining space within each
>block - very cool indeed! whereas in the extended filesystem you would
>potentially loose 3/4 of your storage capacity if your file ended up being
>1k or less. But read the links that have been posted and make sure you
>test/test/test :-) 
>
>
>QUESTION :
>So.. how do we test/test/test???
>  
>
In the ideal world - one would have access to a test (sometimes called 
staging) environment that has identical hardware and software to the 
production environment. One could then run a number of load and fault 
simulations over a set period of time to assess the suitability of the 
desired technology. Back in the real world - find a non-production 
system, set it up as you would for live - and thrash the living 
daylights out of it. chuck everything you can at it - taking note of 
load, processes, memory usage, disk access times, performace et al.

If it breaks: Can you recover?
Is there a notable performance increase or overhead?
was the transition troublesome on the test environment?

Really, if you have a think about it, one can envisage a mirriad of 
procedures to test a system.

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neil