[mythtv-users] Changing filesystems?

malcolm-mythtv mythtv at lds.dyndns.org
Sun Feb 8 00:29:39 EST 2004


On Saturday 07 February 2004 11:06 pm, William Powers wrote:
> My last reply to myself.  Based on a Googled reference, I was able to
> break my XFS 4G file size barrier by formatting the partition 'mkfs.xfs
> -dagsize=4g'.  So, here are the complete results:
>
> Time to delete a 10G file, fastest to slowest:
>
> JFS:                 0.9s, 0.9s
> XFS:                 1.3s
> EXT3:                1.4s, 2.3s
> EXT2:                1.6s
> REISERFS:            6.2s
> EXT3 -T largefile4:  5.9s, 10.2s

Very cool.  I was using ReiserFS since I'd read on this mailing list that it 
was much faster for larger files?  When my new drive comes in I think I'll 
just go back to ext3 which is what I usually use.

Thanks
Malcolm



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