Filesystem performance problems

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan England
I have a hard drive that I use for storing and working with large tar archives, ranging from less than one MB to hundreds of MB and I have thousands of these archives. It is not convenient to format this drive and start over often, which I do about once every 6 months due to the problem I have. It

Re: Filesystem performance problems

2011-08-21 Thread Dennis Kibbe
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 12:57 -0700, Nathan England wrote: I have a hard drive that I use for storing and working with large tar archives, ranging from less than one MB to hundreds of MB and I have thousands of these archives. It is not convenient to format this drive and start over often, which

Re: Filesystem performance problems

2011-08-21 Thread Matt Graham
From: Dennis Kibbe denn...@mesacc.edu On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 12:57 -0700, Nathan England wrote: I have a hard drive that I use for storing and working with large tar archives. It seems that after a few months of working with these archives, unpacking, making modifications and tarring them back

Re: Filesystem performance problems

2011-08-21 Thread Dennis Kibbe
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 14:07 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: From: Dennis Kibbe denn...@mesacc.edu On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 12:57 -0700, Nathan England wrote: I have a hard drive that I use for storing and working with large tar archives. It seems that after a few months of working with these