"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@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
>
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>
>Andreas K. Huettel
>Gentoo Linux developer 
>dilfridge@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.

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