altering defaults

prad prad at towardsfreedom.com
Mon Jun 6 11:26:27 CDT 2011


Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net> writes:

> If space efficiency is a consideration then smaller blocksizes might
> be useful.  Not so much for hits per day, but for how many files you
> expect to store at any one time; you'll waste ((blocksize / 2) * nr
> files) on average.
>
space is not likely an issue at all.
if there is no efficiency issue the usage of 4096 bytes hardly seems
significant.

so thx eric and michael for your input on this!
we'll leave things alone. :D

-- 
in friendship,
prad




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