Optimising performance for many small files

[sam tygier]

On 05/06/11 00:45, compdoc wrote:
>> It is laptop Acer Aspire 8920G.

> Many newer drives use 4k sectors which require a special alignment to run at
> full speed. Basically, 'alignment' roughly translates into the first
> partition starting on sector 2048.

unless its greater than 1 TB drive I doubt this is the problem. I dont think there are any smaller drives that use 4k sectors.

a search for "linux filesystem maildir" gives several pages talking about which file systems to use for small files.

sam