What's the fastest filesystem for developer builds?

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Published on 2011-02-04T00:02:39Z Indexed on 2011/02/04 7:27 UTC
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I'm putting together a Linux box that will act as a continuous integration build server; we'll mostly build Java stuff, but I think this question applies to any compiled language.

What filesystem and configuration settings should I use? (For example, I know I won't need atime for this!) The build server will spend a lot of time reading and writing small files, and scanning directories to see which files have been modified.

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