[NTLUG:Discuss] ext3 waste disk spaces then Windows ME?

[m m]

All:

I just found this:

" ... Ext3 has the worst inital capacity (92.77%), while others FS preserve 
almost full partition capacity (ReiserFS = 99.83%, JFS = 99.82%, XFS = 
99.95%). Interestingly, the residual capacity of Ext3 and ReiserFS was 
identical to the initial, while JFS and XFS lost about 0.02% of their 
partition capacity, suggesting that these FS can dynamically grow but do not 
completely return to their inital state (and size) after file removal."

from

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/6396

According to the article abovem it seems that the XFS is "better" than ext3.
ext3 must be good at some points, otherwise why the most distro use it?
Anyone have the idea?

Chris, you lose abou 60G HD space, (sorry, but make me happier, just 
kidding...). Don't you ever think to use other file system?



>From: Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>
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>To: NTLUG Discussion List <Discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] ext3 waste disk spaces then Windows ME?
>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:17:46 -0500
>
>m m wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > I just notice that my 160 G hard drive "shrinked" to 140 (145?) G hard
> > drive after fomatted to ext3 file system and mounted to my linux box.
> >
> > I used to use that 160 G HD as WIN ME box, at that time I still have
> > about 150  G total spaces.
> >
> > Each  file system have its advantages. but is it worth to  sacrifice
> > about 10G to use another file system?
>
>Seems a bit extreme.  There's always the journal.. but it's
>relatively small in comparison to the overall disk size on the
>larger disks.
>
>fat32 is a pretty simplistic file system.  10G still sounds a bit
>extreme to me... but you're not alone...
>
>Using reiserfs on my 900G drive yields
>878865140K (840G)
>
>I feel your pain.
>
>
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