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> And files are just too big for the small pieces of data we want to point at. Files can be any size you want. Why does the author say this?
by Myrmornis 8y ago
> And files are just too big for the small pieces of data we want to point at.
Files can be any size you want. Why does the author say this?
- yunyu 8y agoFiles are associated with inodes, which have nonzero size. They are also segmented into multiples of the block size of a filesystem, so even a 1 bit file effectively takes up 4KB if your block size is 4KB.