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paluszak
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 Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: filesystems and CPU use |
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Hi,
I have an old desktop and I was thinking about making it useful by installing gentoo on it. The problem is that the CPU is pretty old (something like P2) and I don't want to waste too many CPU cycles on filesystem, so I'm podering what kind of fs should I use. My personal favourite is the good old ext3 at the moment, but I wonder what other people here think?
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mirko_3
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I haven't really checked, but I know that people here generally say that:
-Reiserfs (v3) uses a lot of CPU
-JFS is often recommended for notebooks as it's supposed to save battery life. Dunno if it is because of the cpu usage or HD commit management.
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| FWIW, ext3 tuning. But, a P2 is a bit slow for all that compiling... |
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paluszak
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulBredbury wrote: | | FWIW, ext3 tuning. But, a P2 is a bit slow for all that compiling... |
Thx. I'm going to compile everything on an external USB drive connected to my laptop and then run the system from an external drive. I can't mess up to much with the local drive in this desktop because the so-called OS somebody installed there has to remain, so my plan is to shrink the NTFS partition a bit, put boot and swap partitions on the local disk, but the rest will be placed on a partition on an external drive. Anyway, the compilation's starting right now...
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tuxmin
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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I guess good old ext2 has the lowest overhead of all useable filesystems. Of course, if you happen to have a large drive fsck will drive you crazy...
Hth, Alex!!!
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