Re: reiserfs?

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> 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.

 It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.

 Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.

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