Huge Partition

Martin Stone martin.stone at db.com
Thu Apr 22 19:10:55 UTC 2004


Steve Wampler wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 11:46, Martin Stone wrote:
> 
> 
>>Inodes also take up space.  If you have 2048 GB raw partition, and want one 
>>inode every 32K, and eack inode takes up one 1K-block, you have 32 inodes/MB * 
>>1024 MB/GB * 2048 GB ==> 67108864 Kbytes = 65536 MB = 64 GB used up just by your 
>>inodes.
> 
> 
> 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.






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