Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?
Date:	Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:42:59
Message-Id:	`20050813133708.3499a890@hactar.digimed.co.uk`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? by Fernando Meira

1	On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:24:06 +0000, Fernando Meira wrote:
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3	> Ok, so then reiserfs is a good choice when disk-space is a limitation.
4	> In the Gentoo Handbook is stated that reiserfs greatly outperforms ext3
5	> when dealing with some files, often by a factor of 10x-15x. But what
6	> about "big" files?
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8	It depends what you mean by "big". I tend to think of raw video and DVD
9	ISO images as big, and XFS has a definite advantage there, but you don't
10	deal with those when disk-space is a limitation. For tens of MB files,
11	reiserfs is fine.
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15	Neil Bothwick
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17	"Bother," said Pooh, more from force of habit than anything else.