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#1 2011-03-01 17:58:38
- Captain Dunce
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XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
I've been using Linux on and off for a long time now but I had never bothered to pay much attention to the filesystem choices because I needed to use ext3 so Windows could directly access my partitions. Now that I don't have to concern myself with Windows compatibility I've been experimenting and I just wanted to give a huge thumbs up to XFS as a filesystem for many large music/video files. I have a 2TB WD Green Caviar filled with music/video and I do frequent editing and encoding which can include lengthy file write times, however, with XFS I'm seeing at least a 50% speed increase which is great as the WD Green drives aren't very snappy in the first place.
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#2 2011-03-01 19:13:44
- nTia89
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
can you post a test ?
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#3 2011-03-01 19:16:31
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
Moving to GNU/Linux Discussion since this is not a post for support request.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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#4 2011-03-03 05:00:54
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
Thanks for moving this.
@nTia89 -- I didn't use a very scientific method. I just kept an eye on my stopwatch after performing various file moves and copies. To be specific I was copying from an ext3 partition to an xfs partition. I didn't write down everything, but one that I did was transferring 35 gigs of music files, 3mb-6mb average, which took just 5min 32sec. Maybe others get much better speed but for me and the hardware that I am accustomed to using this was a huge improvement.
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#5 2011-03-03 10:17:06
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
thanks anyway
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#6 2011-03-03 19:49:00
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
XFS has long been touted as a high performing FS for large files, so I am not surprised by your results.
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#7 2011-03-03 20:36:48
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
Do not take the "not for lots of small files" warning lightly though.
Extracting the kernel archive and removing it will take ages. (Especially nice if you didn't have /tmp as a RAM drive, packer puts extracted files there, and you boot up with a half hour long "Removing left over files")
At some point, find and mlocate have started to wreck my system too, to the point where even mpd and the mouse halt for seconds.
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#8 2011-03-03 22:28:52
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
Well, the small files problem can be solved: http://wiki.flexion.org/LinuxFileSystems.html
I used XFS for a while, was really satisfied with it, until my daughter pressed the reset button on my machine and XFS simply zeroed all files that were opened at the time of reset. This happened to me twice, so I quickly removed all traces of XFS from my system. Use XFS only if you have UPS.
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#9 2011-03-08 15:41:33
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
@SanskritFritz:
Thanks, that seems to help a lot. (EDIT: 10 times faster, but there were some XFS updates in the kernel too)
$ time rm -R linux-2.6.37.3 linux-2.6.37.3.tar.bz2
real 3m7.385s
user 0m5.573s
sys 0m0.443sExtracting gave some hiccups. On the other hand updatedb worked OK again.
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#10 2011-03-08 17:31:48
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
ok, i want to use XFS in my external hd but now it's formatted in ext4
how can i convert ext4->xfs without lose my files and without copy entire content in another hd ?
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#11 2011-03-08 19:18:15
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Re: XFS Great For Video and Music files[SOLVED]
ok, i want to use XFS in my external hd but now it's formatted in ext4
how can i convert ext4->xfs without lose my files and without copy entire content in another hd ?
AFAIK you can't.
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