ext3 vs. reiserFS

[Douglas J Hunley]

On Friday 12 April 2002 18:31, Bill Campbell wrote:
> An interesting tidbit is that the ext2 file system appears to be less
> efficient than reiser as there was less free space on the copied file
> system than the reiserfs one.

only for small files. reiserfs does "tail-merging"...
in other words, with 4k blocks on your fs, reiser would put 2 different 2k 
files in the same block. all other (IIRC) filesystems would put only 1 file 
in the block (leaving it half-empty).

tail-merging is coming to ext2/3 soon. however, tail-merging can cause issues 
for some apps (lilo springs to mind)
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