On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:52 , Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@xxxxxxx> sent: >On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:12:27 -0600 >Jan Depner eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 07:00, Florian Schmidt wrote: >> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:02:28 -0800 (PST) >> > R Parker rtp405@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > > I'm hesitant about returning to ext2 because I've had >> > > fsck blow up in my face more than once...guess that's >> > > why I rsync to a big IDE HD. I do expect ext2 >> > > performance to be perfectly acceptable. >> > >> > what's wrong with ext3? >> > >> The hournal is not with the file. This causes problems when the >> file is written to. > >what kind of problems? You mean, because the journal is on another part >of the disk, the head has to move a lot while writing? (writing data - >updating journal - writing data - updating journal...) Yes. Take a look at the filesystem tests section on this page. Mark Knecht did a few tests and the results are very interesting. http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/Arcana.html Jan > >flo > >-- >Palimm Palimm!
