On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:15:19PM +0200, Christian Völker wrote:

> > With backuppc the issue is not so much fragmentation within a file as 
> > the distance between the directory entry, the inode, and the file 
> > content.  When creating a new file, filesystems generally attempt to 
> > allocate these close to each other, but when you link an existing file 
> > into a new directory, that obviously can't be done so you end up with a 
> > lot of long seeks when you try to traverse directories picking up the 
> > inode info.
> Makes sense to me. Is there any FS which would be recommended for best
> performance?

I've used reiserfs and xfs with success. They seem to perform about
equally well. (I did not benchmark though!) I did not try ext3 yet.

Tino.

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