[TriLUG] Fastest file system?

[jeremyp at pobox.com]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:

> > Which file system has the fastest R/W performance? We're running Red
> > Hat 7.1.
> 
> While the filesystem can affect performance, I don't think the differences 
> are likely to be significant when compared to hardware issues: IDE vs SCSI 
> vs RAID, onboard cache on the controller, System memory set aside for disk 
> caching, etc.

How do you set aside system memory for caching?