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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssigv!gdonl From: gdonl@gv.ssi1.com (Don Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 512 or 1024K blocks? Date: 2 Sep 1994 04:31:37 GMT Organization: Silicon Systems, Nevada City CA Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3469r9$shl@sunrise.gv.ssi1.com> References: <33tp2tINN2j6@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <33v6ef$s1s@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunrise.gv.ssi1.com NNTP-Posting-User: gdonl In article <33v6ef$s1s@agate.berkeley.edu>, Edward Wang <edward@priam.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >I assume you mean 8k/1k vs. 4k/512 filesystems. >It's not at all clear that 4k/512 actually saves you space. A 4K/512 filesystem is definitely a winner for my news spool (with all those little files). I use 8K/1K everything else. -- Don "Truck" Lewis Silicon Systems Internet: gdonl@gv.ssi1.com 138 New Mohawk Road Phone: +1 916 478-8284 FAX: +1 916 478-8251 Nevada City, CA 95959