Quoting Jon Erickson (jon.erickson at neicoltech.org): > >The testing I have done, shows ext2 faster the Reiserfs, and on a cache fs, I > >don't think journaling is necessary or needed (IMHO). > > That's interesting to hear. I've read on a couple web sites > (http://www.swelltech.com/pengies/joe/benchmarks.html is one of them) > that had benchmarked ext2 and Reiserfs cache partitions and they saw > significant performance increases with Reiserfs. I'd be interested in > seeing your results if you have them documented. I tried this on a fs where I do all my compiles. This is under Java using both make and ant, so I don't know if .java and .class files constitute "small" files. I got the raw data, let me see of I can make something with gnuplot. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9