anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Wesley
Most recent years we keep using the ext4 filesystem. But years ago before ext4 we used the ReiserFS filesystem. In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small files). Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to ext4? Thanks.

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread David
On Mon, 2024-08-12 at 08:09 +, Wesley wrote: > Most recent years we keep using the ext4 filesystem. > But years ago before ext4 we used the ReiserFS filesystem. > In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many > small files). > Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How abo

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Wesley wrote: > In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small > files). Yes, that was its main strength. Possibly ext4 can economize on very small files, too. man 1 chattr mentions: "A file with the 'N' attribute set indicates that the file has data stored

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 12 Aug 2024 18:17 +1000, from curmudg...@telaman.net.au (David): >> Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to >> ext4? > > Is it even being maintained these days? Per Wikipedia: ReiserFS 3 : "The reiserfsprogs 3.6.27 were release

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread eben
On 8/12/24 04:09, Wesley wrote: Most recent years we keep using the ext4 filesystem. But years ago before ext4 we used the ReiserFS filesystem. In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small files). Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to ext4?

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Benoit Lair
Hi We are still using Reiserfs for its space optimisation. Very optimised for a lot of little files and its shrink feature is better than with xfs The file system is more resilient with power outage per exemple than others So with linux 6.6 any way possible to load the module ? Le lun. 12 août

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i think i found documentation about effective storage of very small files in ext4: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout#Inline_Data https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197633/how-to-use-the-new-ext4-inline-data-feature-storing-data-directly-in-the-inode https://m