I'ld use RiserFS but I hear it's murder. :) Sorry couldn't resist.
Sincerely, Steve On 3/13/08, Steven Alligood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Barry Roberts wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 21:15 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > > >> Today I had a chance to compare ext3 and XFS overhead. Basically, I > >> created a new XFS filesystem and copied a bunch of data onto it. Then I > >> created an ext3 filesystem and copied everything from the XFS > filesystem > >> onto it. Most files were under 15M in size. I didn't compare > performance > >> because all I cared about was space efficiency. Count me as another XFS > >> fan. > >> > > > > Just FYI, I didn't really set out to do a test, but I accidentally found > > out that in certain cases (500 GB partitions with millions of 10-100k > > files in millions of subdirectories) ReiserFS is more space efficient > > than XFS. I had to make the XFS partitions bigger, or they would fill > > up where the ReiserFS partition still had 10% free space. I believe > > that was with notail on Reiser, but I'm not positive. > > > > I'm not saying ReiserFS isn't a dead end (I think it is, we're moving to > > XFS), but it might be the most space-efficient fs out there. > > > > > ReiserFS will save a lot of space in it's default configuration, but > notail will give performance increases at the expense of that saved > space (reiser saves space by packing data into the tail end of a block, > but has a huge performance penalty to do it; notail turns off that > behavior). Also note that reiser is pretty good at saving files, but > deleting them is terribly slow and performance intensive (which is why > you don't want to use it with mythtv :) > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
