Thomas Kuther wrote:
Ah OK, that computes. So i'll go with reiserfs on that big one (11 GB
for internal stuff is too much i have to admit).
Thanks!
Tom
Other filesystems will also consume space (most of them, more so than
reiserfs or reiser4), they will just allocate it incrementally with the
data. The metadata handling in reiser4 is designed differently, so it
allocated during mkfs.
Ext3 will use more space than reiser4 for the same data. reiserfs with
tail packing will use the least space (of all the filesystems in linux),
but will be slower than reiser4.
I would suggest reiser4 if speed is important, or XFS if data safety is
important (since r4 is still experimental). Both of them will use around
5-8% of the disk (depending on the number of files etc.), which is less
than most filesystems.
LL
