Re: The Future of ReiserFS development

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 12 October 2006 10:36:11 +0200, roland wrote:
> >
> >Of course: Simply backup, mkfs and restore!
> 
> not that simple if you have hundreds of thousands or even millions of small 
> files !
> reiserfs is quite efficient in storing small files.
> don`t know if there is anyfilesystem which is as efficient with this.....

Just millions?  What's your problem then?

Per file you can estimate 4KiB + 128 bytes for the inode.  That's
about 4.2GB for a million files.  The "wasted" size is still lower, as
small files still require some storage even with tail packing.

And in-memory reiserfs is just as inefficient as any other filesystem,
as it shares the same page cache.

Jörn

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necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including
blind stupidity.
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