Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:13:36 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: The Future of ReiserFS development |
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On Thu, 12 October 2006 10:36:11 +0200, roland wrote: > > > >Of course: Simply backup, mkfs and restore! > > not that simple if you have hundreds of thousands or even millions of small > files ! > reiserfs is quite efficient in storing small files. > don`t know if there is anyfilesystem which is as efficient with this.....
Just millions? What's your problem then?
Per file you can estimate 4KiB + 128 bytes for the inode. That's about 4.2GB for a million files. The "wasted" size is still lower, as small files still require some storage even with tail packing.
And in-memory reiserfs is just as inefficient as any other filesystem, as it shares the same page cache.
Jörn
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