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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?= <jan.kundrat@fzu.cz>
Subject: Re: happy updates
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:30:15 +0100
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To: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org>
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Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I knew the file fragment packing of reiserfs was effective but I've 
> never had such a clear demonstration of it.

This is IMHO effect of not using the "notail" option for reiserfs - it 
will try to store small files inside the directory tree. Under ext3, 
even the smallest file takes whole blocksize (4kB by default), at least 
AFAIK :-).

-jkt

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