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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