Florian Philipp wrote: > Is there a tool for finding the perfect blocksize for a file system? At the > moment I use Filelight but that only gives me the average size. > > How do you choose the blocksize in general? > > By the way: On a partition without many write operations, for example /usr, > does Reiserfs' tailpacking still cost performance? > > Thanks in advance! > > Florian Philipp
One tunes filesystems the hard way or not at all. You either accept the defaults or do a detailed performance evaluation. It's actually not all that hard ... figure out what your workload is and benchmark it over all half-dozen or so major supported filesystems (XFS, JFS, Reiserfs 3, ext2, ext3 and a couple others I've forgotten). Then when you have a winner, tune that filesystem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
