Re: MySQL file system

From: "Prasanth Kumar" <kumar1(at)home(dot)com>
To: "PostgreSQL General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MySQL file system
Date: 2001-01-17 15:54:52
Message-ID: 006401c0809d$d43d6cb0$be55fea9@c654771a
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> >Then I realized that although I had the disk space for the total file
> >size, they were mostly smaller than a block on my disk, so I was going
> >to loose alot of space.
>
> The solution to this is sub-allocation, which Novell has achieved. NOT a
DB
> filesystem.
>
> >It's not earth shattering, and sure there are other solutions. But it's
> >cute and could be useful. Add some bugs and a few security compromises,
> >and it almost looks like M$.
>
> Heh, except the stuff from Microsoft is likely more useful ;)
>
>
> Rob Nelson
> rdnelson(at)co(dot)centre(dot)pa(dot)us
>
Doesn't ReiserFS support sub-allocation? I have never used it but remember
that it was supposed to be efficient in storage of small files.

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