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The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)

The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)

Posted Jul 8, 2006 11:04 UTC (Sat) by job (subscriber, #670)
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On my busy mail and news servers I've found that ReiserFS has a much higher performance than other file systems. I suspect that this has to do with the tail packing which is discussed in this article. This is a great feature and I would hope it doesn't get left out in future file systems because of NIH issues or more hypothetical damage scenarios.


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The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)

Posted Jul 15, 2006 16:44 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Tail packing reduces performance unless files packed together are generally accessed together.

What it increases is *storage efficiency*.

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