[gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hi, I want to know which is the best file system for a high performance Linux? I'm presently a encrypted ext3 file system for my Gentoo Desktop machine.. I've heard that ReiserFS provides the best performance.. Is it true? What about XFS? My file system is created using the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Teresa and Dale
Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hi, I want to know which is the best file system for a high performance Linux? I'm presently a encrypted ext3 file system for my Gentoo Desktop machine.. I've heard that ReiserFS provides the best performance.. Is it true? What about XFS? My file system is created

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Jeff
New for 2006! http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz :-) Teresa and Dale wrote: Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hi, I want to know which is the best file system for a high performance Linux? I'm presently a encrypted ext3 file system for my Gentoo Desktop machine.. I've heard that ReiserFS

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, there is no 'best' fs. Except for boot. Boot should always be ext2. Everything else is just overkill. ext3 is nice for backward compatibility. reiserfs is nice, if you have lots and lots of small files (like me), because it saves a lot of space. xfs is nice, if you deal with big files

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 13:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin a écrit : reiserfs is nice, if you have lots and lots of small files (like me), because it saves a lot of space. However, reiserfs suffers from fragmentation in the long term. A laptop (slow disk) with a single reiserfs partition and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Jure Varlec
On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? From Wikipedia: There is no known way to defragment a ReiserFS filesystem, aside from a full dump and restore. However ReiserFS v4 has a repacker that takes care of file fragmentation.

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 11:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan a écrit : Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Disadvantages says no, unless full dump and restore i.e. tar everything, clean your disk, and untar it ... Fred --

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/4/06, Jure Varlec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? From Wikipedia: There is no known way to defragment a ReiserFS filesystem, aside from a full dump and restore. However ReiserFS v4 has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 13:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin a écrit : reiserfs is nice, if you have lots and lots of small files (like me), because it saves a lot of space. However, reiserfs suffers from fragmentation in the long term. A laptop (slow disk) with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Teresa and Dale
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 11:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan a écrit : Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Disadvantages says no, unless full dump and restore i.e. tar everything, clean your disk, and untar it

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teresa and Dale wrote: How does one see if it is fragmented or not? I'm sure there is a command somewhere. Would this command be on the Gentoo install CD, the 2005 version? Thanks Dale :-) You will probably like this forum thread.