Huge Partition

[Steve Wampler]

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?

Thanks,
Steve
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