Julian Foad writes: > ReiserFS is the default with SUSE 8.1 which I've just installed. Oh yes > ... hey folks, I've just made the switch from Windows to Linux. Played > with RedHat and Debian a couple of times in the last few years, but now > I think it's a permanent switch.
Welcome to the side of the angels. > My Windows ME (successor to 98SE) had a single 15 GB FAT-32 partition, > and it uses 8 KB blocks. On that, FG scenery was eating large chunks of > my disk space. I think FAT-32 is capable of using small (0.5K or 1K) > blocks but is not configured to do so because the FAT itself would be > big and therefore slow when following the block chain in large files. The nice thing about Reiser is that you don't have to decide in advance -- it allows multiple small files to share a single block. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
