Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [STUPID TESTCASE] ext3 htree vs. reiserfs on 2.5.40-mm1

Hans Reiser
2002-10-03T19:39:30Z

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:04:12PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>No they don't. Average space wastage is more than 50% because sysadmins
>>have to be conservative.
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>Sure, but even a hundred megabytes or two out of a 100 gigabyte drive
>is cheap. (Specifically, about fifty cents' worth.)
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> - Ted
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Usual space wastage is on the order of 5% of total partition size, yes?
Allocating 0.1% of your drive for inodes will get you into trouble if a
user does something like use mh or read news, etc.