which file system to use

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Fri Aug 4 06:00:42 UTC 2006


· Tom Smith <tom71713-ubuntu at yahoo.com>:

> So I don't necessarily think the entire problem (if any of it) is ext3 
> as much as it is the services installed on the computer. It's the 
> services that are making requests to write to the disk. ext3 (and any 
> file system for that matter) just takes that information and does what 
> it's told.

You are right - but ext3 is also one cause of the problem, as it'll
commit to disk every 30 seconds. Other filesystems don't do this.

Alexander Skwar
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