Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

[Michael Hampicke]

>
> 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.
>
>
> It's been a while since I messed with this but isn't XFS the one that
> hates power failures and such?
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
> --
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how 
> you interpreted my words!
>
>  Well, it's the delayed allocation of XFS (which prevents fragmentation)
that does not like sudden power losses :) But ext4 has that too, you can
disable it though - that should be true for XFS too.
But the power situation in the datacenter has never been a problem so far,
and even if the cache partition get's screwed, we can always rebuild it.
Takes a few hours, but it would not be the end of the world :)