From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3vLn-000771-EO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:42:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7DCfq6a007771; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:41:52 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7DCb60v025243 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:37:06 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E3vGE-0002D1-Qt for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:37:14 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64891405F61 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:37:11 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:37:08 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook? Message-ID: <20050813133708.3499a890@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <42F7D154.7050106@mid.email-server.info> <20050808183034.45c141d0@chi.speakeasy.net> <1123580007.32084.57.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20050809134724.5c2b2cba@chi.speakeasy.net> <20050813125955.1adb3605@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Sat__13_Aug_2005_13_37_08_+0100_xSa.b5ODN3wFWFUo; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 4209540e-83ec-4f26-a2b7-9aae0c2c2516 X-Archives-Hash: d262420f79a242268e8c9e02e4c0af2e --Signature_Sat__13_Aug_2005_13_37_08_+0100_xSa.b5ODN3wFWFUo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, more from force of habit than anything else. --Signature_Sat__13_Aug_2005_13_37_08_+0100_xSa.b5ODN3wFWFUo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC/el3um4al0N1GQMRAn+YAJ0XkjagFx5ZSFbCNnDObzbZ/tq4OQCgvJ4X wETKTpWEQS2H0ok/OK6Nbmg= =3Z8Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sat__13_Aug_2005_13_37_08_+0100_xSa.b5ODN3wFWFUo-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list