On Aug 13, 2012 9:01 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <mgehampi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You should have a look at xfs. >> >> I used to use ext4 earlier, traversing through /usr/portage used to be very slow. When I switched xfs, speed increased drastically. >> >> This might be kind of unrelated, but makes sense. > > > I guess traversing through directories may be faster with XFS, but in my experience ext4 perfoms better than XFS in regard to operations (cp, rm) on small files. > I read that there are some tuning options for XFS and small files, but never tried it. > > But if somone seconds XFS I will try it too.
Have you indexed your ext4 partition? # tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/your_partition # e2fsck -D /dev/your_partition Rgds,
