Moshe Yudkowsky (moshe@xxxxxxxxx) wrote on 20 January 2008 21:19: >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. I use reiser3 and xfs. reiser3 is very good with many small files. A simple test shows interactively perceptible results: removing large files is faster with xfs, removing large directories (ex. the kernel tree) is faster with reiser3. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
