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From: Ookhoi <ookhoi@humilis.net>
Subject: Re: reiserfs for old system?
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:49:59 +0200
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To: Siim Vahtre <siim@pld.ttu.ee>
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Siim Vahtre wrote (ao):
> I have an old laptop (486/sx, 33mhz, 8M RAM) with ~180M hd.
> 
> I really don't care much about the stability, although I would love to
> make it a bit faster. Currently is uses e2fs but would have no problem
> converting it to reiserfs if I gain some speed by doing that.

Reiserfs puts a higher load on the cpu than ext2. In your case, I think
reiserfs would be slower than ext2.