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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 enabled livecd
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:59:20 -0700
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To: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
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Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Talking about livecd's, I'd mention that Recovery Is Possible has also
>Reiser4. It's very often updated, kernel 2.6.5 and as I noticed it always
>has the latest from everything and only 26 MB download:
>
>      http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
>
>I made some "real world" ntfsclone benchmarks what I use very often during
>NTFS development (e.g. test suite). It reads the NTFS allocation bitmap,
>seeks to the used data positions on the source device, seeks to the same
>position in the destination sparse file or block device and copy the data
>thus the clone is immediately mountable.
>
>Resiser4 beat everybody: ext2, ext3, xfs, reiserfs, jfs and even including
>raw cloning between partitions! I've never seen such before for any
>filesystem, it _indeed_ optimizes the disk seeks significantly.
>
>It was about 5% faster than raw cloning and at least 10% faster then the
>next fastest filesytems (ext2 and xfs). I can send full details if one is
>interested.
>  
>
Sure, I would be curious.

>Congratulations!
>
>	Szaka
>
>
>
>  
>
thanks.

-- 
Hans