Le 02/02/2014 17:35, Vitaliy Filippov a écrit : > I personally don't think you'll really benefit from bigalloc on a > 1TB archive partition. Le 03/02/2014 02:30, Andreas Dilger a écrit : > I would say that bigalloc is probably not what you want for an > archival system. Thanks for the enlightenment! I'll leave bigalloc aside for this usage, but I'll definitely keep it around for another use case that I wanted to submit to the list (in a later message). > Since you already know the average file size, using -i {average size} > is what you want. The -N option is just a different way of specifying > the same thing, the underlying filesystem ends up being the same. > > I would also recommend to allocate about 2x the inodes you think you > will need. If there are suddenly thumbnails of the photos or key > photos for videos then you don't want to run out of inodes. Thanks a lot, this is much helpful. It confirms my intent to go for a 2M bytes-per-inode ratio so as to reach ~460k inodes (or twice as much as I'll probably need). Cheers, Bastien -- 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