>>>>> "MT" == Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> writes:

MT> For example the 'EAPI' file
MT> that contains a single character will consume a 4K block on disk.

the sort of filesystes one expects to be used for /var all store short
files either directly in the inode or in the directory entry¹.

that said, Fabian’s suggestion of tar(1)ing those files sounds like a
winner.

a number of tools and editors allow r/w access to tar(5) files,
including to the individual files therein.

1] or at least unix/linux filesystems all used too....

-JimC
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