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The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)Posted Jul 5, 2006 23:09 UTC (Wed) by Rakshasa (guest, #14732)Parent article: The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)
Isn't it more interesting to know the ratio of wasted space due to 4KB blocks, rather than the ratio of small files. In the general case those small files propably won't come anywhere near the size of that DVD iso you have lying around.
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The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II) Posted Jul 19, 2006 20:33 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] This is a very good point. If small files waste 700 MB on my laptop's 80 GB hard drive, I could hardly care less. I have yet to see any filesystem properly implement a special-case for small files. It's always either unreliable or slow.
The government institution from the article that wants to store tons of 1KB files should probably use a database instead.
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