On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 04:39:45AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > what is the general opinion on the number of inodes that should be > made on a filesystem? is there any disadvantage to creating much more > inodes then default? (i would guess longer fsck times but that is > less annoying then running out of inodes...)
There's a space overhead for each inode and a time overhead every time you access one. > also what about the larger block size, I imagine this is faster but > how much space is really wasted on average by the larger block size? There's one inode per block, so block size is a function of the number of inodes. Basically, what you have is a tradeoff between the overhead of having small blocks and the wasted space from large blocks. In most cases it won't matter much if you use larger blocks - normally, there are enough large files to mean you won't be wasting too much space - but sometimes it does (eg, with a traditional news spool). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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