On Mar 04, 2009 00:07 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Is it ok that e2fsprogs-1.41.4 allows odd values for -i, such as > in `mkfs.ext4 -i 2047`? If inodes were arranged every 2047 bytes, they > would not be aligned, which would mean one extra sector would have to be > read every now and then, does not it? Should odd values be rejected? Note that the "-i" value is a ratio between the total space in the filesystem and the number of inodes. It does not dictate how those inodes are layed out on disk. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
