Re: journal size reiserfs vs reiser4

[michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>]

On 9/6/05, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/05, Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net> wrote:
> > My vote: put the reserve % in the superblock (if it isn't already) and
> > give mkfs a sane default.
> 
> Looking at the code it appears it would be easier to make it a mount
> option that defaults to 5%. Would that work okay for you?
> 

I dunno about him, but I think it's okay -- provided that it doesn't
screw up too bad.  That said, more people are likely to fiddle with
/etc/fstab than with fstune options... but that's an opinion.  Either
way, it would likely be good to mark it as a potentially dangerous or
performance-deterring thing.  And you don't want to reduce it so much
that there's no room for metadata or space to write in order to delete
if full.

-- 
~Mike
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