[OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. It does defragmentation, and balances some other stuff too. I run it weekly on my production servers, and nightly on most of my workstations. Thus why it is broken by design in my view. A good filesystem should not need to be defragmented. All filesystems will become fragmented over time, but a filesystem which is well-behaved should take minimal, if any, performance loss from it. For what it's worth, I've never had a *single* problem with Ext3, and I've been using it with various distributions since I first started playing with GNU/Linux a few weeks after Fedora Core 1 was released. --Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes
What would you guys suggest in terms of specs for a server, serving say 50 odd thin clients? -- When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous
Peter Gordon wrote: For what it's worth, I've never had a *single* problem with Ext3, and I've been using it with various distributions since I first started playing with GNU/Linux a few weeks after Fedora Core 1 was released. --Peter I use reiserfs and have had no problems either. I still remember how bad windoze used to be though. We would run defrag programs all night they were so bad. Even my brother's Win XP with NTFS gets really bad after a while. All he does is play games and check email. I'm going to go see if I can find that thread in the forums. I'll be back. LOL Dale -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Has anyone gotten the ghostscript-afpl working with a printer
I upgraded to ghostscript-afpl because of problems with version 7 of ghostscript and the current version of imagemagick in portage. Version 8 of ghostscript now works nicely with imagemagick however it is missing the print driver that I need (escpage or lp8900). I would like to know if anyone has been able to successfully add output devices to version 8 of ghostscript and if so how? I have gone through and recompiled multiple packages with different options but it does not seem to help (gimp-print, foomatic [db], cups, and the latest version of ghostscript in bugs 8.52). Thanks for your time, Andrew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
