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On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:36 +0100, Strong Cypher wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm looking for an alternative to ext2/3. |
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> I have put reiser3/4 out because of project seems to be off now ... or |
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> not really active |
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> I really want an active project. |
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> Is they a good fs that is extremly adapted to gentoo system |
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> (portage ...) |
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> Is they fs that support gzip like reiser4 do ? |
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> For exemple , with reiser4 the portage directory don't take a lot of |
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> space, and so read it it's really fast... |
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> I want a alternative |
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> is ext4 a good alternative ? |
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Don't know about ext4 but for portage trees I found ext2 to be faster |
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than everything else I tried (primarily reiserfs3.6). |
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Have you taken a look at XFS or JFS? |
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Concerning online compression I can only think of cramfs (which is |
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read-only) or NTFS (do they support compression by now? I know that I |
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can format a partition and set it to compressed but I've not tried it.) |
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