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To get reliability and faster fsck times, make sure the filesystem you are using supports journalling. |
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Older filesystems do a sequential scan through a directory and therefore are excruciating slow dealing with files in a large directory. Splitting the directory up helps, or using reiser or ext3+hdirs fixes this problem. |
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If you have a lot of I/O, you may consider turning off atime. This is __not__ recommended for mailspools. This can be done in /etc/fstab with: |
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/dev/''partition'' /''mountpoint'' reiserfs notail,noatime 0 3 |
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reiser can be speed up at a small loss in diskspace by disabling tail compression (as shown in the example above). |
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