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Hi! I was just wondering how Ext3 and Reiserfs compare. When I reinstalled my server (because of a stupid hacker) I took the opportunity to change to ReiserFS. And I have to say it's really much faster than Ext3. I don't have benchmarks, but for example, stuff like "make dep" on the linux kernel is much faster (even though I had enabled write cache when I was using ext3). So

...85 of kex.c (version 3.4p1). This happens with either UsePrivilegeSeperation on or off, so I do not believe it is a PrivSep issue. Am I mistaken in thinking that disabling compression on the server would simply silently disable compression for all connections to that server? -- Bruce Guenter <bruceg at em.ca> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available...

...ifferent directory) Does ext3 order the commit such that the file write effectively happens in the journal before the rename? That is, is there any chance that, if a crash occurred, that the destination directory would contain a link to an incompletely written file? Thanks. -- Bruce Guenter <bruceg at em.ca> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available...

Are there any benchmark resultss that meaningfully compare performance of ext2 vs ext3 vs rieserfs vs sgi xfs? What about effect on cpu usage?

I am running shorewall 1.4.8-1 on my firewall. I am also running poptop on this firewall for remote VPN clients to connect to our local network. I would like to set some options in pppd, so that after 2 failed user/pass attempts are tried, the IP address is blacklisted, and an email is sent to the admin of this IP address that has been blacklisted. I know this may be more of a ppp question than

Well, I had the first use of the recovery mode on the RH 8.0 install CD today on a dev system. I changed the mount option for the root partition to data=writeback to see what all the claimed speed increases are about, and the system failed to mount the partition r/w, so the resulting boot failed. After search usenet, it seems other RH folks have had this problem, possibly because it is