Re: 4K drives, sectsz=512, bsize=4096

Nathan Scott
2010-09-01T05:59:11Z

----- "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.

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Nathan