Re: [BackupPC-users] Which FS?

Hi all

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:42:50 -0500, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> And the new directory entry may be all the way across the disk from the 
> existing inode - and far from any other inode in this directory.

        true, but system cache takes care of most directory access, so
        unless you are doing a find, isnt as huge performance hit as
        in windows
 
> And, assuming you have enough disk activity to keep the cache out of 
> date, that 'ls -l' will have to move the disk head to the directory 
> location and then the inode to get the data - if you list many files in 

        wrong, the ls -l doesnt need to move to the files inode to do
        anything, the directory have all the necessary info. in the
        files inodes there is the file data, you only need to go there
        when you need to read that file data

> the same directory that were links to existing files, the head may have 
> to seek all over the place to get the inoded data.

        when you list a directory, you just read the directory inodes,
        if you use a filesystem with index (like reiserfs, xfs and 
        ext3 with the dir_index enabled, etc) the dir of the all dir
        or just one file will take almost the same time, even if
        there are many files on that dir

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