From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264451AbTEPVJj (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 17:09:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264533AbTEPVJj (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 17:09:39 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.65.60]:13562 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264451AbTEPVJi (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 17:09:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC55688.6060605@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 23:22:16 +0200 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomas Szepe CC: esp@pyroshells.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FAT32 problems with kernel 2.4.19 References: <23493.65.122.196.250.1053063209.squirrel@mail.webhaste.com> <20030516194628.GS3478@louise.pinerecords.com> In-Reply-To: <20030516194628.GS3478@louise.pinerecords.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tomas Szepe wrote: > [esp@pyroshells.com] > >> When I'm writing to FAT32 partition, there seems to be a 300% incurred >> size penalty over the equivalent files on ext2 (when unpacking a >> source distribution like boost, gcc, etc) > > I don't understand what you're trying to say. Can you elaborate? If I understand him correctly, he is happy that ext2 has not as much overhead as FAT32. esp@pyroshells.com: If you think the FAT32 overhead is a linux problem, please unpack the same source tree under windows on the same partition and report back if the space used is less than when unpacking this source tree under linux. HTH, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/