Jeff Moe on 12/29/2009 08:20 AM wrote: > Symlinks take space on disk, too. I'm not sure if they take a whole block or > a part of it but there is likely a limit where a links costs more space than > the data itself. Is this where the 2K come from?
An inode on the default file system is only 256 bytes. Ext was optimized for small files and fast symlinks. > > We also should keep care that we do not run out of inodes (which IMHO should > not be a problem if we replace the real file with a link because that > does/should not increase the amount of inodes). With only 2 gigs of space by default, you are not going to run out of inodes. This discussion should have been long ago prior to Maemo 5's release and not now. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
