Asking about the -i options. -i bytes-per-inode The man page states, "This value generally shouldn't be smaller than the blocksize of the filesystem, since then too many inodes will be made." So, whats the problem of having too many inodes On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mag Gam wrote: >> 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. > > Now that I reread, perhaps I gave you the wrong answer anyway. > > Are you talking about the -i or the -b option? > > -Eric > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
