[Sheflug] Posh filesystems

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
	there's been quite a lot of discussion on JournFS of late around
these waters, and even though I am still sceptic to move my workstation
to a JFS for the sake of it, I am having to deal with larger and larger
datafiles for sequential access (images). There are two problems with
this. one is that they're quite slow to load, but I can live with that
(the time it takes to process them makes the loading time negligible).
The second is that they're big. Very big, and unless I keep on
chucking'em on CDs and all that, my hard drive is going to fill up
rather quickly. So I was wondering whether I could get any advantage
using some FS that packs my ~4.4e343 files with less than 2k of data
into something more economic than 4k blocks. I understand reiser uses
some dynamic allocation for the block size (is this correct?), but it's
not very good with large files. XFS, au contraire, is good for large
files, but I don't know about "footprint optimisation".

	Sorry to keep on bringing this topic around :-)

	José
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