Using the "Recommended" method of installation, and letting Mandrake sort out its own partitioning, it uses ext3 and noatime. From the information I have been able to find, noatime speeds things up with ext2, so presumably with ext3 also.
I am wondering whether to do my own partitioning as I usually do, and to use the reiserfs file system. Does noatime also work with reiserfs? If it does, is the improvement noticeable on a normal, single user, desktop machine? I usually partition my Mandrake 40GB hard drive with a small boot, a swap larger than my memory, a 2GB reiserfs home and the rest a reiserfs root. I've not come across noatime before, so any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks Keith
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