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Quoting andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
Aha... I think I might be putting a journaling filesystem on my home directory, the article says you don't need a journalised file system on read only filesystems (/usr /bin etc.) what about security updates, and installing new software, would I be better with a journalised file system everywhere, and would I notice a difference in performance against ext2fs (got an 850Hz Athalon, and fast ide hard drive).
On /usr filesystems it's not updated that often. In this case the read performance should be the same whether it's ext2 or ext3. Howevever ext3 vs ext2 on a 5 year old P233-MMX box, i did spot a big difference in one case when using MySql. I had a 20meg 12,000 record database to import, whuich had a few fulltext indexes. On a ext2 it took about 3 minutes. On a ext3 system I gave up waiting (After 30mins) However if you got a fast modern setup like yours, you probbaly may not spot a difference, it's worth trying both systems and finding out which suits you best - you can unmount a ext3 drive and remount it as ext2, and vice versus. Pete Hatton --------------------------------- E-mail: pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Webpage: http://www.monolight.org --------------------------------- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.