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block sizes in reiser

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 10, 2003 08:03 PM
You don't want to change the ReiserFS block size (unless you really know what you're doing). ReiserFS employs a technique called tail packing where the last block of a file is put in another file's slack space, thereby using disk space much more efficiently. As far as I know, no other file system is boasting this (but please correct me if I'm wrong).

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