On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:23:50AM +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 17:59, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > > behind at least XFS for working on larger files. Reports say that > > ext3 with data=journal is great for mail spools, and directory > > indexing supposedly improves access for directories with many small > > files significantly. > > Isn't this supposed to be "data=writeback". This one us supposed to have > "highest-throughput" according to the mount man pages. :) Or is the > "data=journal" the better for directories with many small files?
data=journal provides highest throughput for MAIL SPOOLS because the small files are written, sent, then removed. When this is all done in the journal things supposedly go much faster. Otherwise, data=writeback, which is the default, provides best overall performance AFAIK. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
