Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > On 09/25/11 23:35, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system > > like ext4 for this size of drive. > > E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. > > Other than fsck running faster, what are the advantages of ext4 over > ext3?
Big files are faster cause Ext4 uses extents instead of bitmap blocks. For more information see the links Jörg-Volker posted. In recent kernels Ext4 should have gotten close to XFS performance wise even on large machines. For a desktop or laptop I recommend Ext4 anyway unless BTRFS gets an fsck and leaves experimental status. I use BTRFS on / already even on my main laptop, but /home for it is still Ext4. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109281832.09606.mar...@lichtvoll.de
