Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:19:13PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > It could be improved, though, but I don't see "lack of inodes" as
> > being a serious problem.  My /home partition is a bog-standard ext3
> > FS and it is 70% full space-wise and only 18% full inode-wise.  I
> > suppose it'd be more of a problem if a filesystem was used only to
> > store arch trees, but who does that? :-P
> 
> But it's so much cheaper to read the data from a single, larger file,
> than from lots of different ones.

This is essentially wrong on all the interesting filesystems. It's
equivalent on most of them, and a little slower to use one large file
on NTFS and HFS+.

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