"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >Am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2013, 14:59:21 schrieb Michael Mol: >> On 05/18/2013 03:23 PM, Carlos Silva wrote: >> > Is the real problem just the god damn unit/init files?! Damn, who >cares >> > about 2KiB files in the age of GiBs?! You can install 1000 of them >that >> > it will only take 2MiB of storage, so please, quit complaining >about >> > this. >> >> Practically speaking, I think the problem is likely more about the >inode >> usage than the physical size of the files. With today's huge disks, >the >> problem does seem to be becoming the cost of metadata over the cost >of >> the data itself. (Why else would we need sectors larger than 512 >bytes?) > >Then use a decent file system. >http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.8#head-372b38979138cf2006bd0114ae97f889f67ef46a >EOT > >-- > >Andreas K. Huettel >Gentoo Linux developer >dilfri...@gentoo.org >http://www.akhuettel.de/
Andreas. I don't see how this will avoid the issue of a limited amount of inodes. That is what I usually run out of before the disk is full when storing lots of smaller files. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
