On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Karol Babioch <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 22.07.2012 21:26, schrieb Nicholas MIller: >> Though your(Karol) right, that a few bytes doesn't matter in the days of >> TB+ hard drives, it might be something worth looking at (how much more >> space will systemd use/save). And on some systems (mostly older) it may >> matter. > > No, it doesn't. A file can't take less space than a single block, which > defaults to 4k (at least this is what "/etc/mke2fs.conf" tells me). So In modern filesystems (Btrfs, NTFS, Reiserfs), sufficiently small files can be stored in the inode itself, taking up zero blocks. -- Mantas Mikulėnas
