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 -- Steve Wampler -- swampler@xxxxxxxx The gods that smiled on your birth are now laughing out loud.
