On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 19:59, Peter Chubb wrote: > The place where the difference will really being to show up is when > the filesystem has been used for a while, and starts to become > fragmented. Filesytems like XFS trade time when creating a file for > time reading it, on the grounds that reads usually happen a lot more > than writes (e.g., you create a web page once; it then gets read lots of > times, once for each query). So by spending more time placing the > file at creation time, it can get better overall performance.
This is an excellent point and thanks for the link. However, performance degradation and spacial efficiency are seperate tests that I've yet to run. The later tests cover some of this however. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
