On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Guy Baruch wrote:

> Hello.
> I'm trying to create an internal freedb server on my home machine.
> this DB has very large directories with a lot of small entries.
>
> I have it on a default ext3 partition, and it takes 2.4GB on the HD.
>
> The reason being that most the files are ~1K files.
>
> Since I had some space left, I created a 4GB partition and formated it with
> mkfs -t ext3 -b 1024

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?

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Tzafrir Cohen
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