Guy Baruch wrote:
>
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
>> Just a comment:
>>
>> You create a special partition for this, and it is supposed to have
>> large
>> directories with lots of small files. Did you consider use reiserfs?
>>
>>
>>
> yes, I know ext2/3 is not a good choice, (quadratic behaviour on copy).
> reiserfs would have been my first choice, however:
>
> man mkreiserfs gives:
> > BUGS
> > No other blocksizes but 4k are available.
> so using reiserfs will not save space. ext2/3 do have 1K block-size.
> I do the copy once. Since this is a home-server (no more than 2-3
> queries a day),
> saving 1.6GB storage is more important than freedb server performance
> or initial copy time.
>
It doesn't have blocksizes lower than 4k, but it will save several file
fragments on the same block (aka - tails). I am not sure what the
performance impact of this is going to be, but I believe it will still
be faster than ext2/3.
Shachar
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