Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>Just a comment: > >You create a special partition for this, and it is supposed to have large >directories with lots of small files. Did you consider use reiserfs? > > > yes, I know ext2/3 is not a good choice, (quadratic behaviour on copy). reiserfs would have been my first choice, however: man mkreiserfs gives: > BUGS > No other blocksizes but 4k are available. so using reiserfs will not save space. ext2/3 do have 1K block-size. I do the copy once. Since this is a home-server (no more than 2-3 queries a day), saving 1.6GB storage is more important than freedb server performance or initial copy time. -- -- regards +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + Guy Baruch , Plasma Laboratory, Weizmann Institue. + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + phone: 972-8-934-2211 +----------------------------------------------------------------------- They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. -- English folk poem, circa 1764 http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/bollier.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
