From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Fedyk Subject: Re: Recommended Journal Size for Small FS? Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 21:38:54 -0800 Message-ID: <404AB56E.1020203@matchmail.com> References: <200403061835.15983.warren@cs.queensu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200403061835.15983.warren@cs.queensu.ca> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jared Warren Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Jared Warren wrote: > (Please excuse me if this has already been answered, I couldn't find anything > pertinent in a brief archive search.) > > I would like to use ReiserFS on my / filesystem, which includes bin, etc, lib, > sbin, and root. Right now the files on that partition only take up 40 MB, so > it seems like a 32 MB journal is overkill. Some comments I've read recommend > using ext3 on small file systems because supposedly the journal is > proportional (I have been unable to find out what proportion), however I It should be less than 5MB (I think ext3's mkfs will scale down to 1 or 2MB depending on size).