On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:41:28AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: [ snip ]
> I'm not familiar with XFS, but reiserfs (which I usually use for large > directories) uses a hash table to store entries. Insertion, deletion, > and searches are therefor largely independent of directory size, and > performance for large directories is vastly superior. > > I have seen reports that XFS beats both ext3 and reiserfs performance by > a huge factor -- recent Linux Journal article on the recent 64-way SGI > GNU/Linux server. XFS is a great filesystem, and seems stable on i386. However, if you're running debian on a non-i386 platform, don't expect XFS to work well. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. -- James Madison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
