Re: creating one file per mail message, or how to make rm -rf take quadratic time

* Kragen Javier Sitaker <[email protected]> [2008-06-21 09:40]:
> I probably ought to try running this on murdererfs and see if
> it performs better; after all, this is the kind of thing it's
> made for, right?

This 2006 comparison of filesystems suggests that it’s not quite
up to fame: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388

http://fsbench.netnation.com/ dials back on that a bit; but the
fact remains that convictfs knows no shame when helping itself to
your clock cycles and memory circuits.

Both suggest that you may want to consider XFS or JFS instead.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>