During the bombing raid on Fri, 4 May 2001 14:19:16 -0600, Eaon was heard
mumbling in fear:
> > Since I will not be running a newsserver or proxy,
> > XFS will be idea.
> >
> Just for curiousity's sake, what is the connection between running a news or
> proxy server and which journaling FS you choose?
Speed, specially when deleting huge amounts of small files...reiserfs
is about 20 times faster than XFS when deleting stuff...a friend in #linuxhelp
did a comparison benchmark (3000 files I think) and the difference was seconds
vs minutes, IIRC (I just sent him an email asking him for the numbers, will
post em here when I get em). So...XFS would make a news/proxy server crawl,
because they add and delete files often and in big batches, while it wouldn't
bug a web or ftp server as much...that's what I think he was talking about.
Vox
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