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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2xkh-00022S-3i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:09:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6IM8101023243; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:08:01 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6IM1PSY018410 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:01:25 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so10273nfc for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:01:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=BKQNv0sXaei2U35Cq3H8L1dVmr3yNSmSbjQi21UNrxlFlwnSBUDFJjOuFW2CX8G8dXQhJ3T4gqjba5qUENZXzJnkk40L7ud0YH2y7fpaVe1nhn/GvYRz8OeV0PNP88BcG6TpzEYp8TysB9hRmDeeDC4hiPVmAl2z5S0r9VEBnmY= Received: by 10.78.164.13 with SMTP id m13mr25645hue; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.16.7 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640607181501o49546aa8ref4e2dd2ee0ec12@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:01:25 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system? In-Reply-To: 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 050cf6baea3cb769 X-Archives-Salt: 9780d6a6-94a0-4db9-88a8-72d8ab9a38fd X-Archives-Hash: 1f06d2e29e94b1d2e22072c1270b0407 On 7/18/06, James wrote: > My question now is which file system would be best to use? I have used > reiserfs with great success, but reiser4 or xfs look appealing. I would stay far away from reiser4. From what I can tell, reiser4 may never make it into the mainline kernel. Xfs and ext3 are both very good choices. Personally I have a /very slight/ preference for xfs, because of xfs_fsr and the tuning options available in /proc. > Recommendations for a file system that is mostly going to be challenged > by streaming video (mpeg, h.264 dirac, ogg theora....) is of keen > interest. Any benchmarks available? Partitioning is probably the most important thing you could do for the performance of this system. Make a separate filesystem for the video work, so it doesn't have to compete for block/extent allocations with the rest of your system. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list