"Adriaan van Os" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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>.
I think this is a case of "you're both right". XFS may have to do more work than other filesystems for meta-information updates. However It still only has to do a constant or nearly constant amount of work. So it may be slower at managing a large directory of thousands of small files than ext3, but it's faster at deleting a single 1G file than ext3. On mythtv the experience is that if you use ext3 and delete a large file while recording another program you can expect the new recording to lose stutter at that point. The large delete will lock out the recording from writing to the filesystem for several seconds. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
