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From: Michael Hampicke <mgehampicke@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:57:53
Message-Id: CADPZhurQHGCRfu9G_kLVaFPrG06dEx3QQ-WM=wEctv-6vkzPkw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files by Nilesh Govindrajan
1 >
2 > You should have a look at xfs.
3 >
4 > I used to use ext4 earlier, traversing through /usr/portage used to be
5 > very slow. When I switched xfs, speed increased drastically.
6 >
7 > This might be kind of unrelated, but makes sense.
8
9
10 I guess traversing through directories may be faster with XFS, but in my
11 experience ext4 perfoms better than XFS in regard to operations (cp, rm) on
12 small files.
13 I read that there are some tuning options for XFS and small files, but
14 never tried it.
15
16 But if somone seconds XFS I will try it too.

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