Re: [SLUG] inodes on reiserfs

From: Jason Boxman (jasonb@edseek.com)
Date: Fri Feb 24 2006 - 16:37:46 EST


Eben King said:
<snip>
> I read http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/reiserfs.html and on the basis
> of that and Ted Ts'o's reputation, reformatted /home ext3.

Keep in mind with the default journaling mode for ext3, only your metadata
is journaled. Data writes aren't journaled.

Also:

http://zork.net/~nick/mail/why-reiserfs-is-teh-sukc

<snip>
> I _don't_ need smaller inodes (allocation blocks?); if anything, I could
> probably save space with bigger ones. And ext3 is less efficient,
> space-wise, than is reiserfs.

If you enable tail packing and have many small files, yes.

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