Re: [SLUG] inodes on reiserfs

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 24 2006 - 17:11:03 EST

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Jason Boxman wrote:

> 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.

Probably fine. I have a big honkin' UPS as well as a complete backup that's
no more than a day old at any time.

> 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.

        size(file) = 0 : 127
   0 < size(file) <= 1k: 1817 <--
   1k < size(file) <= 2k: 976
   2k < size(file) <= 4k: 930
   4k < size(file) <= 8k: 1551 <--
   8k < size(file) <= 16k: 562
  16k < size(file) <= 32k: 643
  32k < size(file) <= 64k: 680
  64k < size(file) <= 128k: 415
128k < size(file) <= 256k: 293
256k < size(file) <= 512k: 226
512k < size(file) <= 1M: 126
        size(file) > 1M: 213

What's tail packing? 

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