[haiku-development] Re: Interesting feature of Snow Leopard
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:14:05 +0200
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
Other related posts:
