[haiku-development] Re: Interesting feature of Snow Leopard

On 2009-09-03 at 13:48:25 [+0200], Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> mlist@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > This is more or less what Haiku does for vector icons, isn't
> > it?
> 
> Actually we do that with attributes in general. I guess it could be
> extended to do it with files too but I am not sure if we would really
> gain much with it as files would have to be pretty small to fit in what
> today is the small data section, Compression would help here.

For a new FS I'd rather go the ReiserFS way and get rid of the inode notion 
completely. That this is a worthwhile endeavor can be easily seen under 
Linux by letting ReiserFS 3.6 compete e.g. against ext3 on a file set with 
many rather small files, say a Haiku tree checkout.

AFAIK for Reiser 4 it was intended to support compression. Don't know, if 
that was actually realized, or whether any benchmarks suggested that this 
is a good idea. Does probably heavily depend on the transfer speed of the 
underlying storage device.

CU, Ingo

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