I've used it with both settings and tail seemed faster. I didn't explored why.
Just my 2c: Maybe while fetching a page the related U* files and small D* files get stored into one block instead of various places in the tree across disk. When reading the same page later, fewer blocks thus need to be read. Another apps don't have this locality (set of inserted files = set of read files at a time) and benefit from notail instead. Ask Hans ;o) Juraj On Sunday 01 May 2005 03:37, Miernik wrote: > Juraj Variny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Had best experience with reiser3 with tail option turned on (this also > > saved considerable space, too). > > Someone, I think it was on #debian, told me that if you turn the tail > option on reiserfs on, you don't get the speed efficiency reiser has on > small files. > > Which is exactly opposite of what you say, so what is the truth?
