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On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have my ext3 mounted using ext4 driver, but I don't notice anything |
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> better or worse. The on-disk structures are the same, obviously, so |
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> any improvement would be the difference between how ext4 driver |
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> handles the ext3 data in a different way (dealloc and mballoc, as that |
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> wiki page says). |
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> To really gain any improvement you'd need to use the new on-disk |
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> format, which the tune2fs stuff will do for any NEW files, but all |
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> existing files will still be old. You'd probably be better off making |
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> a backup, formatting as ext4, then restoring backup. |
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> However, with that being said, I used a freshly-formatted ext4 in my |
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> laptop and still don't notice any difference compared to when it had |
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> ext3. |
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Thank you all for your thoughts/experiences. I concluded that I just |
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shouldn't use the ext4 driver or convert my filesystem. I just |
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re-installed my notebook with Ubuntu 9.04 and choose ext4. Don't |
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really measure a difference, but I rarely use that machine. |
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BTW, my apologies for the HTML posting! |
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Martin |
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