From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anders Widman Subject: Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:03:44 +0100 Message-ID: <192422937.20030220100344@tnonline.net> References: <3E50B398.306B0AC7@interface-ag.com> <86isvfg2rr.fsf@trasno.mitica> Reply-To: Anders Widman Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <86isvfg2rr.fsf@trasno.mitica> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com > that 5-10% is there not for the superuser (with today disks, that is > a lot of space). I was also going to reduce the percentage, but then > somebody explained me that this porcentange needs to be free at all > times to maintain the fragmentation low. And that makes a lot of > sense, the bigger the disk, the more free space you need to have low > fragmentation. That is "free" space that needs to be free to lessen the fragmentation. All the users won't see this free space - and you end up with high fragmentation anyway?