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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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  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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