friendly file system advice

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 14:24 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > I see that on a 250GB disk, xfs took 270K for formatting. ex3 took
> > something like 270 MB. Also, the xfs formatting was very quick. I guess
> > more is allocated on the fly in xfs.
> 
> No, that's really the entire thing formatted.  xfs rocks.

Ummm. The xfs formatting took less than 10 seconds. I would like to
think my SATA disks are fast. But they cannot be that fast. I think it
must put something at the start of the disk, and the rest is added as
needed.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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