I've been slowly converting my small corner of the world to JFS over the
last couple of months as I noticed significant gains (over ext3 and xfs) in
multi-user performance but something lept out at me for the firrst time last
night as I converted the root filesystem of one machine:

ext3 pre conversion:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0               15G  8.1G  6.0G  58% /mnt/gentoo

i then tarred everything up, reformatted to JFS with 'mkfs.jfs /dev/md0' and
then untarred: 
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0               15G  8.1G  6.9G  55% /mnt/gentoo

Used space is the same, but the jfs formatted _says_ there is ~900mb more
free.

I'm curious as to the reason, as this might be another point for me to
accelerate conversion.  

thanks
dave


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