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From: Nathan Scott <nathans@aconex.com>
To: Gim Leong Chin <chingimleong@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 4K drives, sectsz=512, bsize=4096
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:59:42 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1350336911.556311283320782285.JavaMail.root@mail-au.aconex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <881036.47658.qm@web76207.mail.sg1.yahoo.com>


----- "Gim Leong Chin" <chingimleong@yahoo.com.sg> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know how the inode size should be configured for 4 kB
> sector drives?

There is no direct correlation between inode size and sector size.

> Should we leave it at the default 256 bytes, or set it to the maximum
> of 2 kB?

See above.  Keep the defaults unless you have a good reason not to.

> Do inodes occupy discrete sectors, or do they occupy part of the
> filesystem block?

They occupy part of a filesystem block.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-30  7:56 4K drives, sectsz=512, bsize=4096 Michael Monnerie
2010-08-31 21:01 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-31 21:16   ` Eric Sandeen
2010-08-31 22:07     ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-31 22:15       ` Eric Sandeen
2010-08-31 23:12         ` Michael Monnerie
2010-08-31 22:34       ` Nathan Scott
2010-09-01  5:35         ` Gim Leong Chin
2010-09-01  5:59           ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2010-09-01  7:38           ` Michael Monnerie
2010-09-01 10:13             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-01 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig

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