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[Robin <robin AT kallisti.2y.net>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:38:33AM -0700, Seth Woolley wrote:
> notail is more speedy, but uses more space.
> noatime gets a little performance benefit, but by default, I think we
> should enable atime or ask during install?
Yeah, thats my thought also. Especially as it messes with some things.
I'm curious about notail being faster, I would have expected it to be a 
little slower, as if a file is packed into the directory tree, then 
there is less seeking to find it, and a greater chance of it being 
cached, compared to it being with the normal files.

> I don't know about the confusing lilo bit.
That was from the mount(8) man page when I was looking it up:
       notail By  default,  reiserfs  stores  small  files  and  `file  tails'
              directly into its tree. This confuses  some  utilities  such  as
              LILO(8).   This  option is used to disable packing of files into
              the tree.

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