Jean-Francois Landry schrieb:
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> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:29:46PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
>
> > Well since nobody seems interested I'm replying myself. I didn't realize
> > that I created a filesystem with more than 1.8 mio files with my 'stress
> > test'.
> <snip some lines>
>
> >Okay something goes wrong here as well but now I want to
> > see the ReiserFS deletion speed. 'rm -rf 0*' should go fast but -
> > surprise - it took more than 30min!
>
> >-Simon
>
> OK, this is kind of off-topic, but that behavior is to be expected if
> your ReiserFS fs (hmm, can I say that?) uses the tea hash. Since you
> mention a 2.2 kernel it's quite possible your fs was created while the
> tea hash was the default. You might want to retry with the r5 hash,
> since tea bogs down after say, about 500k files or so.
>
More OT: dmesg says
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device ...
Using r5 hash to sort names
It tells me r5 whenever a filesystem gets mounted so it is r5. The point
is that XFS is known to be weak when deleting files but in my test
ReiserFS was even slower.