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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:31:47 -0700 |
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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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First off, Congratulations for your Satire, Ciaran. Been reading much |
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of Mark Twain lately? |
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> For real benefits, reducing the number of files, or using a filesystem |
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> that performs tail packing reduces the amount of disk seek that must |
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> be done, really increases performance given the number of small files. |
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Well, here's another method ;) |
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/root/portage.img on /usr/portage type ext2 (rw,noatime,loop=/dev/loop0) |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 293M Oct 12 23:17 /root/portage.img |
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/root/portage.img 257M 195M 62M 77% /usr/portage |
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some varied interesting things from tune2fs -l |
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Filesystem features: dir_index sparse_super |
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Inode count: 300144 |
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Block count: 300000 |
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Free blocks: 62825 |
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Free inodes: 154512 |
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Block size: 1024 |
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Fragment size: 1024 |
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//Spider |
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Tortured users / Laughing in pain |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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