Hello Frank,
Do you use Linux or Windows?
If Windows you have already lost since the cluster size of e.g.
Windows 2003 is 32 kByte or 64 kByte...
If Linux, you can setup the partitoin to use a blocksize of 1, 2, 4 or
8 kByte.
I asume you are using Linux and "two or three sentences per text" can
not realy large... even 2 kByte is already big for it.
I have arround 140 million files on one of my storage server (38 TByte)
with a size of some kBytes up to a half GByte and I have set the
blocksize to 4 kByte...
Calculating the wasted space give me arround 340 GByte...
Reducing the blocksize to 2 kByte the wasted space is only 170 GBYte.
But I give a f..k on it...
Diskspace is cheap (even using 300 GByte SCSI drives) and I realy do not
like to reinitialize 10 Raid-5 volumes (each 16 HDD) with 3900 GBytes of
usable space
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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