[TriLUG] Fastest file system?

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Thu Oct 25 12:08:42 EDT 2001


On Thursday 25 October 2001 11:47, jeremyp at pobox.com wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > > Which file system has the fastest R/W performance? We're running Red
> > > Hat 7.1.
> >
> > While the filesystem can affect performance, I don't think the
> > differences are likely to be significant when compared to hardware
> > issues: IDE vs SCSI vs RAID, onboard cache on the controller, System
> > memory set aside for disk caching, etc.
>
> How do you set aside system memory for caching?
>
The wonderful thing about Linux, is that the kernel sets aside a little of 
your unused memory for quick allocation and uses the rest as disk cache.  
If Linux has memory available, it puts it to use!

Jon



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