Thanks for the tips, and in particular:
Iustin Pop wrote:
- if you download torrents, fragmentation is a real problem, so use a
filesystem that knows how to preallocate space (XFS and maybe ext4;
for XFS use xfs_io to set a bigger extend size for where you
download)
That's a very interesting idea; it also gives me an opportunity to
experiment with XFS. I had been avoiding it because of possible
power-failure issues on writes.
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and when not to work."
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