On 2010/03/10 21:28 (GMT-0500) Ric Wheeler composed: > For anyone serious about storage (performance, reliability and power > consumption) this will be a positive step. Not everyone. Users of larger numbers of small files and small numbers of large files already lose a heap of space to slack even with 1024k blocksize, which will at least quadruple if forced to 4k sectors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_fragmentation#Internal_fragmentation -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
