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Wernfried Haas wrote: |
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> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:13:34AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>>There was a tip in the GWN about |
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>>turning on dir_index on an already formatted file system. If formatting |
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>>a new one, just use mkfs.ext2 -J -O dir_index /dev/$whatever to create |
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>>your file system. |
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> Good thing you remind me of that. As a new ext3 convert (i happily |
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> used reiser3 for years before), any problems to be expected by doing |
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> so? Afaics it turns on B-trees which should have no impact on the |
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> safety of my data, right? Just want to make sure, i rather use a |
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> slightly slower file system than risking data loss. |
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> cheers, |
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> Wernfried |
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I've been using it on ext3 for about a year and it has never lost any |
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data. It also seems to speed up emerge --sync about as much as using |
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reiser3 does. |
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