On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Bernie wrote:
> Ricsi wrote:
> > LB> What sector sizes does Linux allow?
> > sector size is usually 512 bytes (independant of OS ... hardwaredependant)
> > but linux does not group sectors together as clusters as DOS does.
> > So IMHO clustersize=sectorsize=512
>
> Aren't we talking about the inode size now? As I understand it an inode
> is the equivalent of an allocated unit in FAT. The inode size can be set
> during the installation (1024, 2048 and 4096 or something like that). Or
> have I missunderstood this?
In essence, you are correct, but semantically, not quite.
There is one inode for each file. The inode contains all the
information about the file. It's not the inode that's 1, 2, or
4 KB, but the block size.
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