On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:38, Lawrence D'Oliveiro stood up and spoke
the following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.gentoo...:/

> In article <ZB2hg.111518$dW3.1672@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> ,
> ~David~ <shadoweyez@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>In terms of file system, unless you have a compelling need to do
>>otherwise, I'd recommend ext3 as the file system.
>
> reiserfs is particularly good at dealing with large numbers of files.
> In one application, I had directories containing up to 400,000 files
> each, and it coped with them quite gracefully.

To which I would like to add that I use /xfs/ as the filesystem on this
machine (and /reiserfs/ on my laptop).

/ext3/ is reliable and time-proven, but while it may be the easiest to
repair in the event of filesystem damage, I find /xfs/ and /reiserfs/
to yield a far better performance.

One's mileage may vary, as always... ;-)

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With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user # 223157)