I sent that message too early, forgot to comment on the ext2 part:
>From your data:
ReiserFS: total = 8.5G, used = 32M, avail = 8.5G
ext2: total = 8.4G, used = 20k, avail = 8.0G
I already told you about the 32MB ReiserFS journal. The 0.5GB extra
available that you get with ReiserFS is because it does not preallocate
inodes. As a matter of fact, it does not have inodes period, which is why
it's been a pain to implement with "older" technologies that are designed
for inode-based filesystems (NFS is one such "technology"). That's the bad
side of ReiserFS. The good side of ReiserFS is that with tail packing, you
get to save up on a lot of wasted space with small files that you will see
with ext2.
My recommendation: with a disk of your size, I wouldn't mind the 32MB. Go
ReiserFS, unless of course you want to follow my version of the dark side,
and use XFS which I'm very happy with. XFS also uses inodes but it doesn't
allocate the inodes in one shot. It does dynamic allocation of inodes
depending on need. I have so much more to learn about filesystem theory,
but this is what I've understood from the developers so far.
--> Jijo
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