On 7 Jun, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
My cynical view of ReiserFS is that it is a way to avoid waiting for fsck at boot time. It is a journaling, not a logging, filesystem which means that metadata is always consistent, but not necessary the data in the files. Back when I was locking up X when playing Quake 3, I lost the uptime records about one third of the reboots.
From reading the documentation, I got the impression that ReiserFS is also trying to acheive more efficient storage. They used binary trees for quicker file name searching. And combine smaller files into one sector/cluster for less wasted space.
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