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Re: [Xen-devel] happy updates

To: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] happy updates
From: Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:30:15 +0100
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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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