On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:44:23PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i think these numbers will be similar to those of fossil. > > blksize files blocks mb used > 16384 35738 1427263 22300 > 8192 35738 2675543 20902 > 4096 35738 7775796 30374 > > obviously, there are two competing forces at work here. the amount > of space wasted off the tail of the last block, and the amount of blocks > required to map the data into the inode completely. it seems that for > my mix of files, 8k is a winner.
Thanks for the data, Erik! -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C