[ILUG] Reiserfs storage efficiency

[Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)]

Is this by any chance because the du you're using isn't ReiserFS aware ? ...
if it's assuming that it's using ext2 then you could see this sort of
"problem" ...

Proinnsias

> -----Original Message-----
> used. Output from du -s * is below
> 
> dir	ext2	reiser
> 
> opt	368728	717420
> www	8128	9414
> 
> It seems that the minimum space used by a file on a reiser fs is much more
> than that on an ext2 fs (1k blocks) - opt is particularly bad, because
> there
> I have a local copy of the cddb database, which has > 125000 files, most
> of
> which are small (< 2k).
> 
> Any of you other reiser users seen anything like this or have any ideas
> about this ?
>