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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:10:16
Message-Id: CAC=wYCGqhat5-E96X2a_GoSJGN0bT+vGVoKTsQayV7HPTp-h1A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files by Paul Hartman
1 > I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern
2 > features like reiser4 or xfs
3
4 Unfortunately btrfs is still generally slower than ext4 for example.
5 Checkout http://openbenchmarking.org/, eg
6 http://openbenchmarking.org/s/ext4%20btrfs
7
8 The OS will use any spare RAM for disk caching, so if there's not much
9 else running on that box, most of your content will be served from
10 RAM. It may be that whatever fs you choose wont make that much of a
11 difference anyways.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>