Re: Which partitioning scheme gives best performance?

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: 22 Jun 2004 01:25:50 GMT

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:03:29 GMT, Hactar staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> I think I like reiserfs more. They both fix errors during fsck, but
> reiserfs doesn't _get_ errors. At least, that's my impression during
> limited use.

FWIW, I've been using ReiserFS for / , /var, and /home on my desktop for
2.5 years now. The only time I've had data corruption on a ReiserFS
partition was due to a bug with VIA chipsets and DMA in kernels 2.4.0
through 2.4.4--and reiserfsck fixed everything. YMMV.

>> And, as for your swap space allocation, do you really need to have 1
>> GB of swap space????
> FWIW, I have 768M RAM and 400M swap. I've never run out of swap
> space.

The old rule of "swap = 2*RAM" is no longer worth following, since RAM
szes have increased. If you're using a kernel from 2.4.5..2.4.10, you
may want to follow the rule anyway, since kernels in that range didn't
handle swap well and could fill up the swapspace for no real reason.

> Just remember, IDE disks are limited to 16(?) partitions.

Nope, 63. SCSI disks are limited to 16. 

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