On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> just out of curiosity...
>
> there is an option in slackware where the inode size could be set
> to either 1K, 2K, or 4K during setup...
>
> would choosing any one of the settings other than the default 4K
> make any significant change in the performance of my system?
hi ronald,
you usually use a small inode size when you expect to have lots of small files
in that particular partition. on the other hand, if you're going to have
mostly large files, you should use larger inodes.
inode size = minimum file size
so even if you have a 1k sized file, if your inodes are 4k, it ends up using
4k of space.
hth,
-eric
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