From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:37:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050813133708.3499a890@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3c2e88b0508130524261446c7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:24:06 +0000, Fernando Meira wrote:
> Ok, so then reiserfs is a good choice when disk-space is a limitation.
> In the Gentoo Handbook is stated that reiserfs greatly outperforms ext3
> when dealing with some files, often by a factor of 10x-15x. But what
> about "big" files?
It depends what you mean by "big". I tend to think of raw video and DVD
ISO images as big, and XFS has a definite advantage there, but you don't
deal with those when disk-space is a limitation. For tens of MB files,
reiserfs is fine.
--
Neil Bothwick
"Bother," said Pooh, more from force of habit than anything else.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-13 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-08 21:40 [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Alexander Skwar
2005-08-09 1:30 ` Bob Sanders
2005-08-09 9:33 ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-08-09 20:47 ` Bob Sanders
2005-08-13 11:29 ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-13 11:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-13 12:24 ` Fernando Meira
2005-08-13 12:37 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-08-13 15:58 ` Uwe Thiem
2005-08-09 1:51 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-09 3:24 ` Richard Fish
2005-08-09 5:32 ` Michael Crute
2005-08-09 8:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 13:38 ` A. R.
2005-08-09 13:42 ` Mauro Faccenda
2005-08-09 13:40 ` Mike Williams
2005-08-09 13:54 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2005-08-09 14:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 15:09 ` Richard Fish
2005-08-09 15:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-09 18:14 ` Billy Holmes
2005-08-09 18:46 ` Christian Parpart
2005-08-09 20:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-10 15:49 ` [gentoo-user] Dropping harddrives (WAS Which filesystem for a notebook?) Billy Holmes
2005-08-10 15:57 ` Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
2005-08-10 16:14 ` Billy Holmes
2005-08-10 18:02 ` Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
2005-08-10 20:42 ` Craig Zeigler
2005-08-16 18:19 ` [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Alexander Skwar
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