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!
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