Quoting Guy Baruch, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: > 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.
Reiser will fold the tails of several files into a single block, and small files may be entirely stored on their inode as-is. the concept of inodes is quite different in reiser (hence you will not see anything useful when you use df -i on reiser) since Hans decided to store everything in trees, including the files themselves (don't ask me how the f*&k it works. it's magic) in any case, try it before giving up. yuou seem to have a partition you don't mind reformatting, so go ahead. you're not going to run out of inodes (because the way I understand it, every block can be one) and MAYBE it will be able to stick several files per block after all (count them as "tail-only"). do tell us whet you find, I'm anxious to know. another way to go about it, is not to use a disk partition as your hyrarchial DB, but use a relational DB instead and suck all those pesky tiny files into mySQL. -- I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100 Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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