Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:47:36 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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David Masover wrote:
> > > And I did mention before about how it'd be nice for it to be an fs > chunk...
Please define fs chunk. My mind has an open door.;-)
> > Imagine 5000 tiny little files that, by the time reiser's done with > them, fit inside 5 blocks or so. It's insanely cheaper to copy the five > blocks than to tar them up. It also means that we don't have to worry > about supporting tar on other platforms -- if they don't have reiser4, > they need a separate converter. If apps are going to use reiser4 > metadata for anything significant, they probably would link against some > sort of userland implementation of reiser4 as a Windows library, say, to > access the files elsewhere. > > That's extreme, but you get the idea.
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