Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 512 byte magic multiplier (was: Large File support and blocks) | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:53:27 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> What I'd like to add is: while we're at it, how about losing the 512 > byte magic multiplier and go with the filesystem block size? That way > Ext2 file size automatically goes up by a factor of 8 every time we > manage to double the filesystem block size (blocksize*2 and triple > indirect => 2**3).
Except that there is no guarantee (or probability) that the ext2fs is aligned at the disk level on a 4K granularity boundary
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