Hmm, I am wasting less space when I lower the ratio from 4096 to 1024 (the minimum). Why don't more people do this, since its frugal. I guess your point of more overhead, but what causes more overhead? Also, do you have the buzilla number I can investigate for this? Sorry for such a newbie question. TIA On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
