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Taneli Vähäkangas <taneli@firmament.fi> wrote: > > OTOH, I'd very much > appreciate if the system didn't act very sluggish during updatedb. It really helps if your filesystems were laid out by a 2.6 kernel. What usually happens at present is that you install the distro using a 2.4 kernel and then install 2.6. So all those files under /usr/bin and /usr/include and everywhere else are laid down by the 2.4 kernel. Problem is, 2.4's ext2 and ext3 don't have the Orlov allocator, which lays files out in a much more updatedb-friendly way. I've seen the disk bandwidth quadruple as updatedb switches from a 2.4-laid-out partition to a 2.6-laid-out partition. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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