* Anders Karlsson (anders@trudheim.com) [030427 22:53]: -> ->If you do not mind the danger of losing data in a crash situation, your ->/opt filesystem could use XFS. The risk of losing things if your system ->crashes might be outweighed by the dramatic performace increase you ->should see there. And since /opt rarely has anything written to it once ->you have done your install, that might not be a problem. -> ->Also, if you are using a journaled file system, if you can put your ->journal on another disk, you should see a performace boost as well. On the home machine it's not that there are lots of writes to /opt after the install but starting KDE, Moneydance, Mozilla and the many other things I install to opt start faster..that's where I see the advantage. I'm using EXT3 which is a journaled filesystem. When I was trying to get CrossOver 1.2.1 working..Mozilla froze X hard and my wife had her laptop out of the house so I had to just hit the powerswitch. Everything came back up fine. I didn't find any weird loss of files so EXT3 appears to work. Note: At work all the data that is vital lives on the Network Appliances so journaling isn't a big deal..besides UFS logging sucks under Solaris 2.8 ...and I think we'll be using SuSE before we upgrade to a newer version of Solaris. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.