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Developer interview: Eric Sandeen on ext4 implementation
Developer interview: Eric Sandeen on ext4 implementation
Posted Mar 9, 2008 13:04 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)In reply to: Developer interview: Eric Sandeen on ext4 implementation by danieldk
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Hmm.... so I counted wrong. The extra directories take the excessive inodes.
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Developer interview: Eric Sandeen on ext4 implementation
Posted Mar 9, 2008 14:22 UTC (Sun) by ArbitraryConstant (guest, #42725) [Link]
You are correct. I use rsnapshot, which appears to use the same hardlinking technique to generate its backups. In this case, the directories on disk use up inodes, and for the purposes of inode consumption they act very much like small files.