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Re: Mount options for Optimizing ext2/ext3 performance with Maildir's



On Monday 18 October 2004 16:15, Ian Forbes wrote:

> What mount options give the best performance, "noatime" "data=journal" ?

The fellow that runs KDE's news site recently did some investigation of 
speed / disk usage for Zope's object database vs. ext3.  He figured the 
hierarchical nature of the article and comment history could be 
represented by a file system pretty easily, so was curious how ext3 would 
fare compared to ZODB.

There were some useful comments about optimizing ext3 posted in response to 
his original post.  Some things that were mentioned:

- use htree
- use 2.6 orlov (?)
- mount with data=writeback
- mount with commit=9999

The blog post and comments are here: 
http://navindra.blogspot.com/2004/10/kde-dot-news-ext3s-miserable-failure.html

His blog entry seems to support the contention that if you want expert 
feedback about a tool, just say it sucks.  ;)

Regards,

Mark



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