[KLUG Members] re: quota and file systems

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Sep 16 21:39:01 EDT 2004


> I have a low speed/non-critical system, but of course I want it to run
> as fast and reliable as I can get it.  The system is running fine on a
> Slackware 8.0, kernel-2.4.25. Most of my files are quite small,
> probably under the 2k mark for most ouside of the music backup.    
> So what's a good choice for a 200 MHz Pent. 2 class file server/mp3
> player and CD-Burner? 

If you have 128Mb or more of RAM use XFS;  for a machine this slow (and
I'm assuming with an [probably low-end] IDE drive), set a low agcount
like 2 or 4.

If you have less than 128Mb of RAM use ext3.

Or add more RAM.



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