Re: reiserfs?

[Alexander Clouter <alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 jakemsr@clipper.net wrote:
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> Here's a good one. :)
>
heres a better one... :)

I have been considering installing reiserfs on my laptop, not for the
journaling stuff however because (according to the documentation) that it
is faster, more economic on disk space and.....faster.

I understand that it uses balanced-trees, however what I have been told
by my student flats computing students this tree will have to be balanced
everytime a entry is altered, etc.  If this is true this means CPU usage,
this translated to lower battery time.

Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
uses juice.

or am I just bantering on about nothing :)

Alex