Re: faster fs

Sure, but for the professional use one would probably stick to a high
capacity hard drive anyway... To avoid the risk of wearing-out the flash
card one can use one partition with reiserfs for permanent data (20k
files) and another partition with jffs2 for the frequently renewable data.
An alternative is to keep one's data in a fast database.

Another alternative is, correct me if I'm wrong, to run
"find data_dir_path -name nonexistent" in order to force caching of
directories. You know, run "find" for the first time, it is slow; run it
again, it completes in no time.

Alex

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Michael Opdenacker wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> >Did you try reiser fs, which is believed to be faster than ext2? The
> >corresponding module is available in the unstable feed.
> >
> >
>
> This sounds risky to use a journalled filesystem, as journal keeping is
> supposed to significantly increase the number of writes, perhaps at the
> same physical location (depends on the CF internals).
>
> Your card could wear out much more quickly then...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael.
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 31 16:10:55 2004