On Mon 26 Aug 2019 at 14:23:39 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:20:13 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The "bytes-per-inode" value ("-i" option) is the closest match to what > > you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, > > but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per 16384 bytes. > > <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ext4#Bytes-per-inode_ratio> > > Ahh, that's a useful figure (to me, anyway -- I'm not the OP)-- I guess if I > wanted to try to optimize, I could see what the average size of my files is > (or > might be), and then adjust that ratio to match to about one inode per file. > OF > course, I'm ignoring things like directories and hard linked files.
George, don't do that :) Cheers, David.