On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:47 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > As has been pointed out a couple of times, it's *not* always efficient > to use the filesystem, because the filesystem usually relies on block > sizes. Thus you waste lots of space if your file is < 4k. Has anyone quantified this at any point? If 'lots of space' turns out to be 150MB, who the frick cares? I bought a 500GB hard disk for $60. It was the smallest one they sell any more. I bought an 8GB micro SD card - the size of a fricking fingernail - for $50 a couple of months back. Where are we actually dealing with space limitations any more? Not saying that there isn't somewhere, just that we need to quantify if block sizes are actually a practical problem for the use cases we're considering or not. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
