linux-kernel - Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:47:33 -0500
From:	David Masover <ninja@...phack.com>
To:	David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com>
CC:	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>,
	Mike Benoit <ipso@...ppymail.ca>,
	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>,
	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>, lkml@...productions.com,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@...esys.com>
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org
 regarding reiser4 inclusion

David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, David Masover wrote:
> 
>> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>>
>>> 18GiB = 18 million KiB, you do have a point there. But 40 million
>>> files on
>>> that, with some space to spare, just doesn't add up.
> 
> if you have 18 million KiB and each file is a single block (512 Bytes =
> 0.5 Kib) then assuming zero overhead you could fit 18 Million KiB / 0.5
> KiB = 36 Million files on the drive.
> 
> thus being scheptical about 40 million files on a 18G drive.
> 
> this is only possible if you are abel to have multiple files per 512
> byte block.

I believe Reiser4 does this.  Does ext3?  I know I heard somewhere in
this thread that you can't set the blocksize lower than 1k...


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