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Włóczymyśl

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Registered: 2011-03-17

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Partitioning

I partitioned my disk using xfs file system (pleonasm, I know) for root partition and used all the tricks I know to pump it (noatime, logbufs=8, logbsize=262144, deadline elevator) because I read a lot of good about it here:
http://mindplusplus.wordpress.com/2011/ … 1-edition/

Then I installed Heroes 4 via Wine (for my gf) and... it's lagging like never before! Why is that? I believe is not so much threads in the game... but for curiosity I tested the same with reiserfs and there was lags too (not so large thought).

My PC was cheap but brand-new so... and with ext4 everything worked fine but I wanted to INCRASE it's working possiblities.

Another question: is using reiserfs for /var any good for anything alse than pacman's speed? I can see no use of it...

I'm thinkig of using some small disks for every mountpoint each or something...

Last edited by Włóczymyśl (2011-04-09 17:35:38)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Partitioning

reiserfs 3.6 really isn't that fast at smaller files. ext4 beats it at many operations.

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Włóczymyśl

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From: Poland, Szczecin

Registered: 2011-03-17

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Re: Partitioning

So is there any reason I should use complicated partitioning if I'm not interested in backup possibilities?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115220 - here's the story of my partition table... and everythig just worked better without all these ideas of mine.

Last edited by Włóczymyśl (2011-04-09 18:49:58)