From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Moffat Subject: Re: reiserfs Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <200401251640.31302.wheds8@ms66.hinet.net> <20040125114435.GB12967@neon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040125114435.GB12967@neon> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Axel Siebenwirth Cc: "S. Barret Dolph" , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Axel Siebenwirth wrote: > > Ext3 is slower as far as I know. Reiserfs is quite stable. > I've had the feeling that JFS was faster when it comes to accessing larger > files and reading large directories, I mean with many files. > I have never actually tried ext3 but have read that it has many problems as > well and is quite slow. The On-disk-layout is very old already. > Ooh, almost FUD! I remember reading a sound-recording HOWTO suggesting ext2 was slow, but I use it on all my machines, I've had no problems with it, and I've seen no speed problems attributable to the filesystem :) Ken -- This is a job for Riviera Kid! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs