I am trying to understand what the purpose of having small blocks per inode. I know you can cram more inodes per filesystem, but what is the downside? TIA
Mag Gam wrote:> I am trying to understand what the purpose of having small blocks per > inode. I know you can cram more inodes per filesystem,the main result is that you waste less space per file, since for randomly-sized files you waste half a block(size) per file.> but what is the > downside?More overhead for management, and more importantly, I still think there is a bug lurking somewhere with block size < page size (rpm tends to hit it for some people). -Eric