On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:15:19PM +0200, Christian Völker wrote: > > With backuppc the issue is not so much fragmentation within a file as > > the distance between the directory entry, the inode, and the file > > content. When creating a new file, filesystems generally attempt to > > allocate these close to each other, but when you link an existing file > > into a new directory, that obviously can't be done so you end up with a > > lot of long seeks when you try to traverse directories picking up the > > inode info. > Makes sense to me. Is there any FS which would be recommended for best > performance?
I've used reiserfs and xfs with success. They seem to perform about equally well. (I did not benchmark though!) I did not try ext3 yet. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
