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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:31:47 -0700
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:


First off,   Congratulations for your Satire, Ciaran.  Been reading much
of Mark Twain lately?


> For real benefits, reducing the number of files, or using a filesystem
> that performs tail packing reduces the amount of disk seek that must
> be done, really increases performance given the number of small files.


Well, here's another method ;)

/root/portage.img on /usr/portage type ext2 (rw,noatime,loop=/dev/loop0)
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 293M Oct 12 23:17 /root/portage.img
/root/portage.img     257M  195M   62M  77% /usr/portage 


some varied interesting things from tune2fs -l 
Filesystem features:      dir_index sparse_super
Inode count:              300144
Block count:              300000
Free blocks:              62825
Free inodes:              154512
Block size:               1024
Fragment size:            1024


//Spider


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