Other Distros (NOT A FLAMEWAR TOPIC!!)

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 10 April 2006 14:46, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:30, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> >> Only if you plan to have a gazillion files that are no bigger
> >> than a few Kb. Not the most typical scenario.
>
> I thought Reiser was actually _better_ for lots of small files.

Working off memory here (dial-up and Google don't go well together), 
Reiser does reading and writing better, but it kinda sucks at 
deleting lots of small files - it's something about having to search 
the tree to find the inodes.

But, deleting a file is rare compared to read/write it, so it's an 
acceptable trade-off with current levels of performance

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> > fsck'ing every x mounts just in case ext3-style feels wrong to
> > me.
>
> Well, that's not really ext3 style - it's ext2 style.  It's just
> that converting to ext3 doesn't change those defaults.  When I did
> use ext3 I turned that off without any (apparent) problem.

Why did you do that? I would imagine that the addition of a journal 
doesn't change the need for the underlying ext2 to be regularly 
fsck'ed. Journaling is an effort to maintain data integrity, not 
filesystem integrity

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Alan McKinnon
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