On 2011-05-11 Adam Thompson wrote:
Seriously? You're worried about the space inodes will take on a TWELVE TERABYTE file system?
Yes! :-) I'm so anal I agonized over whether to use the extra 200-400MB over the 2,000,000,000,000 bytes the raw disks provided. In the end I chose to round down the end-sector to the nearest 1MB aligned-sector just under 2,000,000,000,000 bytes; minus 1 sector.
I had an astonishing thought, we're "writing off" 200-400MB like it's nothing, when my very first hard disk was less than half that size! Hmmm...
What amount of disk space (%) could this actually save? Is it really worth worrying about today? I guess I could see it if it's going to
It was apparently making 644 million inodes. I have no idea how big its inodes are, but if we assume a (random guess) of 16 bytes, that's 9.59GB wasted! Ouch. Even my main drives in 1997 weren't that big.
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