disk fun

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> Interesting. I wonder what the most and least efficient linux fs is for
> many small files. In some of my data collection systems, this is a common
> file type. Others will have this and some files that are quite large. But
> never as many very large files.

About a year ago, ReiserFS was the best at efficiently storing small
files, and XFS was the best at efficeintly storing large files.  I think
things might have changed somewhat on the small end since then, but XFS is
still king at the large end.

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