Why do you want a 512 byte block file system anyway?

[Tim Wright]

In <1990Nov19.232124.7802 at cichlid.com> aab at cichlid.com (Andy Burgess) writes:

>In article <1990Nov18.182135.17954 at scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
>...
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>>p.s.: i want a 512Byte filesystem for news, so speed is not an issue.

>I just did an ls -l /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/sysv386 and I didn't see one
>file less then 512 bytes long. Most (estimate 90%) were over 1024 bytes
>long. Doesn't this mean 512 byte block buys you nothing?

>Just wondering -- I'm no file system guru.

Reduced waste of space due to wasting on average 1/4K in the last block
instead of 1/2K. I think the original problem may have been down to not
specifying the FSTYPE to fsck and mount - they may not autodetect - I can't
remember for sure. I might try it some time if I get a disk with some
room on it :-)

Tim
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