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Matt Harrison wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> I have to say that after my recent transfer, my login got a whole one |
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>> second faster. I can't tell any difference anywhere else. Of course, |
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>> portage has always been on its own partition and used ext3. |
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>> We need a hard drive engineer on here. :/ |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Hey, I've been following this thread with some interest. I just wanted |
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> to note that you guys might like to subscribe to Sun's ZFS-discuss |
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> list and possibly Storage-discuss. The guys on there really are |
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> hard-disk gurus and some of the things they talk about are miles over |
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> my head. |
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> It's just interesting as ZFS is supposedly (and I believe it) THE |
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> filesystem when it comes to combating fragmentation. Maybe reading |
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> over what those guys chat about would be interesting to some folks |
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> from this thread. |
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> In fact, the guys over at Sun are so hot on fighting fragmentation, |
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> they're already looking at some really advanced things like low level |
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> algorithms for deduplication and some other things that scare me and |
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> make me want to take a hot shower :P |
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> Happy holidays |
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> Matt |
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But if we learned to much, we may be dangerous or something. Sometimes |
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to much knowledge can be bad. lol |
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I !think! I tried XFS once. If it was XFS, you need to have a UPS for |
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sure. Every time the system crashed I had to re-install. I never got |
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it to recover even once. I have heard the same thing about its defrag |
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efficiency tho. Just don't trust it to much with my data. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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