Hi again,
I would recommend to use on-the-fly conversion to unix-file plugin. It will reduce memory usage for incompressible files. You will need to reformat your root partition. Use "mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40,compressMode=conv /dev/xxx" to enable this. But first rebuild kernel with the attached patch. This feature is relatively new, so it would be better to have a backup of your root partition and update it from time to time.
Thanks a lot ... I'll give it a try soon when I'll get my new laptop. Congratulations to reiser4's stability - I ever encountered a single stability or data corruption problem. However lately I deleted about 8 700mb files (mpg) and my laptop was busy for about 5min. I deleted it using konqueror - do you have an idea why deleting such large files is that slow? Thank you in advnace, lg Clemens
