On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:47:06AM +0200, Adriaan van Os wrote:
That's a remarkable advice, because XFS is known to be slow at creating and deleting files, see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS> and <http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435>.
xfs' slowness is proportional to the *number* rather than the *size* of the files. In postgres you'll tend to have fewer, larger, files than you would in (e.g.) a source code repository, so it is generally more important to have a filesystem that deletes large files quickly than a filesystem that deletes lots of files quickly. I'd suspect that the same is true for mythtv.
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