Re: Space wasting

On Monday 08 March 2004 14:31, Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
> > I know all this. How do unix fs compensate?
>
> I-nodes. See:
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/03/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Err, no. inodes are just structures that say "file foo uses blocks 125, 126
and 149, has permissions 777, is owned by ..." etc. pp.

"Normal" UNIX inodes don't compensate the "leftover" block problem, in fact
they can in some cases make this problem even worse but we don't want to dive
too deep into it on this list :-)

(hint: create a disk image of just 100kB by using dd and mkfs, mount it and
touch some files or copy some really tiny file into it and you quickly get a
"No space left on device" message even though df says 80kB free or something
like that, since you ran out of inodes)

> --- Eric
C'ya,
        Marc

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Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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