Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:
> > 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. I understand the comments about reiser4, although folks claim the performance is wonderful. But do you think that xfs will outperform reiserfs (3 series?). > > 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. Agreeded. I have a problem I thought I had solved. I have tried Partition Magic 7.0, repartitioning on the experimental livecd for amd64 and now the livecd from Gparted. All allow resizing of the 85 Gig ntfs partition, but, when I go to commit(run). All three fail. No matter what I do, I cannot reduce the 85Gig down to 30gig. This URL suggest defragging the windows (NTFS partition) to be able to condense the XP OS: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Linux_after_Windows Resizing this partition on an HP8000 portable should not be so difficult. What am I missing? Several site allude to Microsoft trying to make it difficult for Linux users..... Ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
