On Aug 13, 2012 9:01 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <mgehampicke@gmail.com> 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.

Have you indexed your ext4 partition?

# tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/your_partition
# e2fsck -D /dev/your_partition

Rgds,