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From: George Shapovalov <george@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A few modest suggestions regarding tree size
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 05:39:06
Message-Id: 200410122217.55987.george@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] A few modest suggestions regarding tree size by Nicholas Jones <>
1 On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:05, Nicholas Jones wrote:
2 > Given this info and a fairly sane FS... like Reiser3 with tail
3 > packing... You consume around 80 megs of disk space... About
4 > one-fifth of what you mention... Even with 330 files less!
5 You know, given bunch of under 1k files and typical block size of 4k on file
6 systems nowadays, reiserfs might be the reason there is 5x size difference in
7 these two examples :). Oh, that and 45 min sync time quite as well (although
8 still highly unlikely even on ext2).
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10 George
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