friendly file system advice

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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.

I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lonni J Friedman                        netllama at linux-sxs.org
LlamaLand				http://netllama.linux-sxs.org