Re: [tlug] Suse 8.1 In-Hand

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:16:58AM +0900, A. Sajjad Zaidi wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:53:12PM -0500, Josh Glover wrote:
> > 
> > ReiserFS is actually a great choice for a root partition, as it is great for
> > filesystems with many small files. Root partitions are known to contain things
> > like /etc, which on my relatively pristine system, contains about 7000 files
> > averaging about 350 bytes.
> 
> I agree. All the partitions on my main system are XFS except for / and
> /usr (/usr/local is XFS) since both of their average file sizes are way
> below 100KB. It seems that XFS has the best performance for files over 
> 100KB while ReiserFS is best for many smaller files. I wonder how ext3
> performs.

Very subjective opinion (no benchmarking of any sort).  On smaller
files, on a workstation with nothing special about it, I found reiser to
be faster--this was with Slackware, fairly similar installation of both
filesystems.  




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