On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:53:59PM +0200, Dirk Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For me packing tails sounds like an excellent way to improve performance,
(not only for you)
> especially for lots of small files. That it performs much worse than
> disabling this code in practice is difficult to understand for me and sounds
> more like an implementation bug.
for one thing, most optimizations done by the vfs only work for aligned data.
for tails you need a lot of copying. also I think the implementation is
suboptimal, so I expect reiserfs to become even better ;)
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