On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:57 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:40 -0500, Rick B wrote: > > > From what I've read XFS main strong point is *reading* data from the > > disk faster than other FSs', especially as it pertains to large video > > files. But when it comes to writing and deleting, its performance is > > worse than other FSes. I've personally tried it and it didn't seem any > > faster than ReiserFS. > > Actually, XFS is very fast at deleting very large files. I know, i do > DVD authoring all the time, Ext3 is simply ludicrous when deleting a lot > of very large project files, you have to wait and wait and wait... With > XFS, even a 50GB project gets deleted instantaneously. > > Also, when writing real fast to really big files (think: video capture) > pretty much nothing beats XFS. I'm using it on a few partitions in Debian. It's pretty nice... seems stable and fast. I've not put it to any major tests but the performance has been really good so far. This is pretty good: http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/journal_fs/ > -- http://www.RTaylor-Design.Com
