Ingo Weinhold wrote: > 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. Of course we first need to decide who will become a murderer... (couldn't resist) ;) -Bruno