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Re: [LUG] ext4, anyone?

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 09:31, Paul Hirst wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:22 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>> Anyone using ext4 yet?
>> I've used it on a few desktops where I've installed Ubuntu Jaunty. I
>> haven't seen it crash yet :-)
>>
>> That's about all I can offer for advice. Which I admit is next to
>> useless! I've actually just started using XFS on a few servers where
>> ext3 wasn't going to cut the mustard.
> And why would that be?

For instance, ext3 performance degrades badly where you have, say, lots
of small files in one directory, as can happen with Maildir mail spools.

James

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