22 Jan
2005
22 Jan
'05
11:29 a.m.
Rick Taylor wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:57 -0800, Florin Andrei
wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:40 -0500, Rick B wrote:
>
>
>> From what I've read XFS main strong point is *reading* data from the
>>disk faster than other FSs', especially as it pertains to large video
>>files. But when it comes to writing and deleting, its performance is
>>worse than other FSes. I've personally tried it and it didn't seem any
>>faster than ReiserFS.
>
>Actually, XFS is very fast at deleting very large files. I know, i do
>DVD authoring all the time, Ext3 is simply ludicrous when deleting a lot
>of very large project files, you have to wait and wait and wait... With
>XFS, even a 50GB project gets deleted instantaneously.
FWIW I went ahead and formatted my data partition as XFS when I
reinstalled. I passed the 'linux xfs' parameter to the FC2
installer held off on formatting the partition. As it turns out
this doesn't cause xfsprgs to be installed automatically and I had
to track it down and install by hand (the rpm is on disk 4).
XFS does delete gigantic files instantly and otherwise has run well;
so far so good.
Barton