Re: The Future of ReiserFS development

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > What is the plan? Could i
>> > migrate from reiserfs to another journaling filesystem?
>> 
>> Of course: Simply backup, mkfs and restore!
>
> not that simple if you have hundreds of thousands or even millions of small
> files !
> reiserfs is quite efficient in storing small files.

Depends. While reiser may get a diskspace bonus for packing, xfs and 
others have a time bonus for not packing, and that's more important 
when having lots of files. Disk space is quite cheap nowaedays.

> don`t know if there is anyfilesystem which is as efficient with this.....


	-`J'
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