But I would simply switch to reiserfs. You said:
As the freedb database contains zillions of small files it
That's perfect for reiserfs. Ideal for you ;-)
At least, try, I'd like to know if the untarring runs faster on reiserfs under the same conditions - I'm very curious, it should be much faster ;-)
- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Thanks! I have formatted that partiton to reiserfs. Untaring was MUCH faster. Not on the same computer, but on another one 10-15 minutes vs. 6-8 hours. I have two questions: 1. What about the block size on reiserfs? The default is 4096. Should not I change to smaller value? Or on reiserfs this thing works differently? 2. df and du gave different results for the filesystem (10 GB partition). "df -h" said that the used space on the reiser was 2.5 GB and about 7 GB was free (available). However "du -sh freedb" reported 7.5 GB. Why is this? Thanks, IG ___________________________________________________________________________ Pénzügyi szolgáltatás és hiteligénylés interneten keresztül a nap 24 órájában az [origo]-n. www.klikkbank.hu