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Re:Early Linux filesystem reliability by avar on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @04:58PM (#14448484)
Always relevant in this context, a parable from Theodore Ts'o about XFS & FS reliability: http://zork.net/~nick/mail/why-reiserfs-is-teh-sukc
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Re:Early Linux filesystem reliability by Florin_Andrei on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @05:34PM (#14448733)
ReiserFS was so fast when you had LOTS of tiny files, like with a caching proxy.

Eventually the Ext family caught up with it.

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