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Re: filesystems

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• Subject: Re: filesystems
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 16 Jul 2003 08:27:48 -0700
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David Megginson <david@m...> writes:

> Personally, I use Reiser because it will fit multiple small files into
> a single block; when working with GIS data, I can save over 10GB of
> disk space simply over Ext[23].  We won't even start talking about
> FAT32 with small files ...

Talking about small files, and assuming you have many of them, how
well does Reiser handle large directories? Does it do some sort of
indexing on directory contents, or are you using a deep directory
structure to keep directory files short?

Ari.

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