>>>>> "AM" == Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> writes:
AM> Haven't a clue. I would have expected the maximum file size to be a AM> number of blocks, which makes it seem strange that doubling the block AM> size multiplies max file size by 16. Doubling the block size means that the structure specifying which blocks are in use by a given inode is twice as long. And the structure supports indirect blocks, which contain references to the actual blocks used by the file data. So you get one doubling for the size of the blocks, and another three for the number of blocks each file can use. Most ext3 and ext4 filesystems use 4096 octet blocks. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
