On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:25:54PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:14:20PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Depends if you use tail packing or not. > I'm not sure I want to ask what this is :) The last bytes of a file that do not fill a complete block (4096 bytes normally, but please correct me someone if I am wrong) are called its tail. If you mount a reiserfs filesystem with the notails option (disabled by default) each tail is given a complete block, wasting some space on the disk. If you use tail packing, several tails are packed into the same block. Nils -- ______ (Muuuhh) Global Village Sau ==> ^..^ |/¯¯¯¯¯ (Kann Fremdsprache) ==> (oo)
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