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

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David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/

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