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List:       reiserfs-devel
Subject:    Re: problem with reiser4
From:       Hans Reiser <reiser () namesys ! com>
Date:       2005-03-01 20:00:19
Message-ID: 4224E767.5030908 () namesys ! com
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Fred Schaettgen wrote:

>On Tuesday 01 March 2005 19:54, fitzboy wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>I'm just switching from 2.4/reiser3 to 2.6/reiser4 on the first batch of
>>machines. We are running a bunch of apple xRAIDs connected to Dell
>>servers running Debian. we have the 2.6.10-mm kernel and we can make the
>>reiser4 partitions, but there is a lot of lost space somewhere. If I
>>create a reiser3 or xfs partition, I get 1.1T, but with reiser4 I can't
>>get above 984GB. That is too much of a jump to be explained by overhead,
>>so something is wrong... any thoughts?
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>I'm not an expert, but isn't the free space just a a rough estimation? 
>
Uh, no.

>You 
>can't know in advance what the average file size will be etc. Maybe reiser4 
>is just more conservative. What matters is how much data is actually stored 
>on the disk the moment it runs full.
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>
It is user error or a bug.  He is saying the reported free space is 
less, and this should not be.  Note that it could be a units of 
measurement issue also....

>Fred
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