--- plug bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i ask in the context of browsing thru a samba share > using windows explorer(w2k) ... a folder that > reports so-and-so disk usage is supposedly using up > 2x/3x that amount on disk! Smells a lot like the > classic cluster size problem on FAT/FAT32( y'know, a > 1k file eating up 32k)
This is a normal consequence using filesystems that use linked allocation as a basis for filesystem organization. A FAT is used to speed up traversal of a linked allocation-based FS, but in the end, you still traverse the file system in a sequential manner, and use up more disk space. Most UNIX and Linux filesystems use indexed allocation-based filesystems (as provided by the inodes) like BFS, ext2/3, XFS, NTFS, etc. I don't know where to classify the B,B+ and B* tree-based FS (like Reiserfs and HPFS) , however (perhaps another new class of it's own?). Indexed allocation is, however, more wasteful in terms of allocation of nodes in the beginning, but is more efficient in the long run. I'm not sure if Samba implements an FS wrapper which reads an inode-based FS to a FAT-based system, or the other way around. Paolo Falcone __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
