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"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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>Am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2013, 14:59:21 schrieb Michael Mol: |
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>> On 05/18/2013 03:23 PM, Carlos Silva wrote: |
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>> > Is the real problem just the god damn unit/init files?! Damn, who |
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>cares |
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>> > about 2KiB files in the age of GiBs?! You can install 1000 of them |
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>that |
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>> > it will only take 2MiB of storage, so please, quit complaining |
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>about |
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>> > this. |
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>> Practically speaking, I think the problem is likely more about the |
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>inode |
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>> usage than the physical size of the files. With today's huge disks, |
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>the |
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>> problem does seem to be becoming the cost of metadata over the cost |
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>of |
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>> the data itself. (Why else would we need sectors larger than 512 |
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>bytes?) |
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>Then use a decent file system. |
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>http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.8#head-372b38979138cf2006bd0114ae97f889f67ef46a |
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>EOT |
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>Andreas K. Huettel |
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>Gentoo Linux developer |
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>dilfridge@g.o |
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>http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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Andreas. |
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I don't see how this will avoid the issue of a limited amount of inodes. |
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That is what I usually run out of before the disk is full when storing lots of smaller files. |
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Joost |
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