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>>>>> "AM" == Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> writes: |
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AM> Haven't a clue. I would have expected the maximum file size to be a |
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AM> number of blocks, which makes it seem strange that doubling the block |
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AM> size multiplies max file size by 16. |
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Doubling the block size means that the structure specifying which blocks |
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are in use by a given inode is twice as long. And the structure |
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supports indirect blocks, which contain references to the actual blocks |
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used by the file data. So you get one doubling for the size of the |
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blocks, and another three for the number of blocks each file can use. |
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Most ext3 and ext4 filesystems use 4096 octet blocks. |
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-JimC |
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