Re: choosing the file system block size

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> I'm assuming you're talking FFS here.
Ah, sorry, yes, I'm talking of FFS.

> at least if you ignore the space used by the inode.
I guess I can indeed ignore inodes because the space occupied by them doesn't
vary with fsbsize, or does it?

> For files large enough to need indirect blocks,
> (a) the size is rounded up to the block size, not the frag size,
Oops, I didn't know that.

> and (b) you also need to account for indirect blocks.
Ah, yes. Although that's probably negledgible

> And all of the above assumes you either have no holes in your files
Yes, I don't think I have files with holes (other than quota.user, which
will vanish).