Duncan Webb a écrit : > On Tue, 13 February, 2007 12:21 am, Evan Hisey wrote: > >> Pascal- >> I had a similiar but less stark issue with to nearly identical >> hardrives. Try using hdparm /dev/<drive> to see what the settings are on >> each drive. I would expect the old 40 to be a bit slower but not that >> much. The -t option run gives okay bench marks but needs to be run about 3 >> times for an accurate feel of performance. >> Hi,
Thanks Evan, I did some tests, but hdparm -t didn't give very significant information between the two systems. > AFAIK the deletion of a file is simply removing an inode with an ext2 > partition, this is why the remove os call is unlink, with a journalling > file system such as ext3, xfs or reiserfs it has more work to do. > Yes, my 'At Work Linux guru' told me to test my rm under 'strace', and rm does only an unlink, but this unlink take a incredibly long time. > I would try different file systems, first try ext2 as it has no > journalling so the disk operations are reduced I actually have an old 13 Gb HD in this system, who wasn't formatted. I just installed an ext2fs filesystem. Incredible ! This drive is slower than the other, but the unlink of a 1,2 gb file took only 1,2 second ! I just map my freevo tmp on this drive, and my TV show is working as expected. > , xfs is supposed to be good > too. I'll do some further tests, then > Personally I use ext3 because I can resize the partitions with > Partition Magic. > > Duncan > Thanks to you two, -- Pascal Schirrmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
