Hi On Apr 4, 2005 12:53 PM, J.Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 04 Apr 2005 3:07 pm, GLOWFRIEND wrote: > > Hi, > > infact I can say comparing Reiserfs and Ext3... Reiserfs complies more > > towards posix acls and its faster for smaller files and multiple > > recursive directories. Even for large Files its quite fast... but in > > case you are planning to store file more than 1 GB with a huge Hard > > disk I would recommend ext3... > > > > regards > > I have 4.3 GB HDD and no file having a size > or = 1GB. > but I have noticed a warning message during the booting says > *DMA is turned off* . long before in Redhat6.2 I enabled the DMA option during > kernel compilation and booting from that build kernel displayed some error > messages with IDE reseting . since then I have never activated DMA . is there > any command to enable the IDE DMA to just check whether it will work or not ?
man hdparm http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/hdparm -siddhartha > > thanks for ur response. > > > > > On Apr 4, 2005 3:12 AM, Siddhartha Basu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Apr 2, 2005 12:27 PM, J.Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > could anyone pls tell me whether reiserfs file system slows down the > > > > machine ( than the ext3 on that particular machine ) ? > > > > > > I have used both and still using both of them in different partitions > > > of my hard drive. > > > I haven't felt any kind of slowdown because of reiserfs. > > > Though haven't tested it yet, reiserfs4(bleeding edge version, not > > > includeded in the main kernel tree yet) boast to be the fastest > > > filesystem with cfq/anticipatory io scheduler combo. > > > > > > > > > if yes then how can one change > > > > > > > reiserfs to ext3 ? > > > > > > Backup your data and then > > > reformat the partition using reiserfs filesystem specific > > > userland tools. Be sure to compile the kernel with filesystem support > > > first. > > > > > > >some technical discussion between reiserfs and ext3 is > > > > also welcome. > > > > > > These are some links with benchmarks > > > http://fsbench.netnation.com/ > > > http://www.ephess.net/fs/linux-2.4.html > > > > > > -siddhartha > > > > > > > thanks in advanced. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > ___________ > > > > ( debian!!! ) > > > > ----------- > > > > o > > > > o > > > > .--. > > > > > > > > |o_o | > > > > | > > > > |:_/ | > > > > > > > > // \ \ > > > > (| | ) > > > > /'\_ _/`\ > > > > \___)=(___/ > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > -- > ___________ > ( debian!!! ) > ----------- > o > o > .--. > |o_o | > |:_/ | > // \ \ > (| | ) > /'\_ _/`\ > \___)=(___/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
