Huge Partition

[Rick Stevens]

Steve Wampler wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 12:10, Martin Stone wrote:
> 
>>>Holy smokes - are inodes really up to 1K each?  Now I *really* feel
>>>old...
>>>
>>
>>Well, nothing can be smaller than a block, remember...  Or wait, can it now?  Oh 
>>man, now *I* feel old.
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure inodes started life as 64-byte entities (you can
> pack multiple inodes into a block by using / and % to locate
> the block and the offset in the block).  However, I suspect that
> 64-bytes is too small these days and inodes have kept up with
> inflation.   And it wouldn't surprise me if all the different
> filesystems now have different inode sizes - anyone know?

ext2 inodes are 128 bytes.
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