PE Size and Waste

It appears that one PE can only hold a single file. Since my PE size is 16MB, that means that the files on my LVM array are... well, less than efficiently packed. What puzzles me is that this fact is never mentioned anywhere in the Howto... I see nowhere that mentions the inefficient file packing, or the need to keep PE size to the minimum necessary for more efficient storage.

This leads me to wonder if perhaps my situation is anomalous... SHOULD the system hold more than one file per extant? I originally created an LVM1 array over a year ago, and formatted it with reiserfs. After mounting the array on a new computer recently (with a 2.6 kernel) I upgraded the metadata to LVM2. For the first time I investigated the seeming lack of space (the major culprit was 2.5GB of small files [manga] taking up >75GB of space). I read and re-read the available LVM documentation, but nowhere seems to discuss a limitation of one file per PE or LE.

Is this a bug with reiserfs? Should I use XFS or perhaps plain ext2? Perhaps all I need to do is run a command to pack the data, or reformat reiser with a different parameter?

Thank you for your assistance and insights.

this is not true, there is no relation between PE size and filesystem. i wonder were you got this impression.

Regards,
L.

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Very confusing. Then I must be mistaken... I think I know the culprit. It must be my NFS client that is wrong. If so, my apologies for spreading misinformation.