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SubjectRe: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion
David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, David Masover wrote:
>
>> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>>
>>> 18GiB = 18 million KiB, you do have a point there. But 40 million
>>> files on
>>> that, with some space to spare, just doesn't add up.
>
> if you have 18 million KiB and each file is a single block (512 Bytes =
> 0.5 Kib) then assuming zero overhead you could fit 18 Million KiB / 0.5
> KiB = 36 Million files on the drive.
>
> thus being scheptical about 40 million files on a 18G drive.
>
> this is only possible if you are abel to have multiple files per 512
> byte block.

I believe Reiser4 does this. Does ext3? I know I heard somewhere in
this thread that you can't set the blocksize lower than 1k...

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