David Lang wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, David Masover wrote: > >> Horst H. von Brand wrote: >> >>> 18GiB = 18 million KiB, you do have a point there. But 40 million >>> files on >>> that, with some space to spare, just doesn't add up. > > if you have 18 million KiB and each file is a single block (512 Bytes = > 0.5 Kib) then assuming zero overhead you could fit 18 Million KiB / 0.5 > KiB = 36 Million files on the drive. > > thus being scheptical about 40 million files on a 18G drive. > > this is only possible if you are abel to have multiple files per 512 > byte block.
I believe Reiser4 does this. Does ext3? I know I heard somewhere in this thread that you can't set the blocksize lower than 1k...
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