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 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users