IBM Baking Some Nice Optimizations To EXT4's Multi-Block Allocator

[kcrudup]

2653237918_12d75084a0_o.png I'd heard good things about ReiserFS as well.

... then there's this handy comparison chart!

[dwagner]

Wait, someone was actually using ReiserFS? That's a first!

We used reiserfs (3) for many years on mission critical server hardware. It was really solid and outperformed every other FS in its days when many small files were to be stored. The "tail packing" feature of reiserfs is something I miss to this day in other filesystems. So sad the author turned into a criminal... could have really made a big dent in filesystem history.

[smitty3268]

Wait, someone was actually using ReiserFS? That's a first!

I also used Reiser 3.

Back then most distros defaulted to EXT3, but it wasn't really that popular of a choice. A lot of people recommended either Reiser3 or XFS instead, with Reiser being more of the desktop PC option and XFS coming from the server side.

When EXT4 came out it caught up with a lot of the benefits the other FS's had, and most people switched to it and haven't really looked back since. It was Reiser 4 that never caught on.

[evil_core]

We used reiserfs (3) for many years on mission critical server hardware. It was really solid and outperformed every other FS in its days when many small files were to be stored. The "tail packing" feature of reiserfs is something I miss to this day in other filesystems. So sad the author turned into a criminal... could have really made a big dent in filesystem history.

OpenZFS also does tails packing when any compression is enabled.