On Friday 12 April 2002 18:31, Bill Campbell wrote: > An interesting tidbit is that the ext2 file system appears to be less > efficient than reiser as there was less free space on the copied file > system than the reiserfs one.
only for small files. reiserfs does "tail-merging"... in other words, with 4k blocks on your fs, reiser would put 2 different 2k files in the same block. all other (IIRC) filesystems would put only 1 file in the block (leaving it half-empty). tail-merging is coming to ext2/3 soon. however, tail-merging can cause issues for some apps (lilo springs to mind) -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org panic("sun_82072_fd_inb: How did I get here?"); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/include/asm-sparc/floppy.h _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
