This reminds me of way back in the early days when we started getting larger drives with Mac HFS, before HFS+ became available. We could see block sizes up to 32k on a large enough drive, maybe a gig or so.
Imagine creating a file with five characters in it, using 32k storage! The number of files you could create would have the same limit, before filling up the drive, yet most space on the drive could be empty. --Don Ellis On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, David Dooling <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:42:01PM -0500, Mike B. wrote: > > gotcha. I wonder if the file system itself is corrupt? > > Looks like it is just a limit of ext3. > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/5/18/1861684 > > Looks like the workaround is to use a bigger block size. > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The original system was running 8.04 LTS. To create a model of it on > > > my Lucid laptop, I used a loopback with ext3. Have not tried it, yet, > > > with ext4. > > > > > > Regards, > > > - Robert > > ... -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
