From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
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On 2 May 2025 20:16:26 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> 
> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some 
> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as 
> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a 
> while to catch on.
>

Reiserfs is a filesystem that supports tail packing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_suballocation

The ext* filesystems do not support tail packing.

Btrfs supports tail packing but I would never trust my data to that
piece of shit.

If one has huge numbers of very small files then tail packing
is a great advantage.  That's why I always used reiserfs until
those fucking bastards deprecated it.



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