From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: journal size reiserfs vs reiser4
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:27:45 -0700
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>, vs@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

David Masover wrote:

> Peter Staubach wrote:
>
>> Hans Reiser wrote:
>>
>>> Research for filesystems generally says that as you get more than 85%
>>> full the performance goes down, by a lot as you get close to 100%.  5%
>>> is probably too little rather than too much.
>>>  
>>>
>>
>> Wow.  What is all that space used for?  Other journalling file
>> systems that
>> I have seen have limited things like journals to a much smaller space,
>
BSD FFS has a 10% limit unless you are root.  They are correct to do so.