Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Buy why 8k and not the current size of 4k?
Sorry, I didn't read your patch before shooting off my mouth.
4k should be plenty. I said "8k" only so that it'd be more than
plenty.
Typically, inodes are 256 bytes or less. I think SGI has a filesystem
option where you can have 512-byte inodes. And one of the early Unix
implementations had fairly-large in-inode files:
Files of less than 493 bytes are stored directly in the
corresponding inode.
-- section 3.1 of: W. A. Felton, G. L. Miller and J. M. Milner,
"A UNIX System Implementation for System/370",
AT&T Bell Labs Technical Journal 63, 8, part 2 (October 1984)
<http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherports/ibm.pdf>.
But I've never heard of inodes larger than 512 bytes.
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