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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org
 regarding reiser4 inclusion
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:47:33 -0500
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David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, David Masover wrote:
>=20
>> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>>
>>> 18GiB =3D 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.
>=20
> if you have 18 million KiB and each file is a single block (512 Bytes =3D=

> 0.5 Kib) then assuming zero overhead you could fit 18 Million KiB / 0.5=

> KiB =3D 36 Million files on the drive.
>=20
> thus being scheptical about 40 million files on a 18G drive.
>=20
> 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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