Re: [LI] Block size of filesystem

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:43:38PM +0530, Dipinder Chhabra wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 	In our mailserver the average size of an inbox in
> /var/spool/mail partition is about 0.4 Mb. I was thinking to make the
> block size for this filesystem quite large(about 32 k). Will there be any
> problems in doing so? And will the performance of the system improve?

Numbers that I saw indicated that ext2fs gains about 20% on block size
of 4k. But this will also result in internal fragmentation i.e. you
could be wasting 4095 bytes of disk space per block.

	-Arun

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