Michael Hampicke wrote:
>
>     You should have a look at xfs.
>
>     I used to use ext4 earlier, traversing through /usr/portage used
>     to be very slow. When I switched xfs, speed increased drastically.
>
>     This might be kind of unrelated, but makes sense.
>
>
> I guess traversing through directories may be faster with XFS, but in
> my experience ext4 perfoms better than XFS in regard to operations
> (cp, rm) on small files.
> I read that there are some tuning options for XFS and small files, but
> never tried it.
>
> But if somone seconds XFS I will try it too.

It's been a while since I messed with this but isn't XFS the one that
hates power failures and such? 

Dale

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