<4> post_create: setxatter failed

[Dan Hollis]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Both.
> > Its not just for large directories, reiserfs did much better with many 
> > small files too (typical of news and mailservers).
> Hmm. that surprises me for htree enabled filesystems (note that if you
> create an FS with an old distro and then put 2.6 on it it doesn't use htree)

Remember reiserfs was designed from the bottom up to work quickly with 
lots of _small files_. So it does what it was designed to do well. That 
this happens to be the typical workload of news servers and mailservers 
is a happy coincidence.

Remember this is _not_ purely about directory sizes.

-Dan