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How is a 100 byte file a valid refutation of what you quoted? It quite clearly states that you should leave the cluster size alone if your files are typically s
by biot 15y ago
How is a 100 byte file a valid refutation of what you quoted? It quite clearly states that you should leave the cluster size alone if your files are typically small.
- yread 15y agowell, OK let's take a guess at median filesize 4KB [1]. Then the 4KB cluster wastes some space only for half of the files whereas 16 KB wastes space for bigger proportion plus they waste additional 12KB for 50% of the files. On the other hand the paper also shows how ridiculous it is to talk about the wasted space - look at figure 14, files smaller than 16KB occupy ~1% of all space. Even if we waste space 4:1 it's still ridiculously small amount of space [1] http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Meyer.pdf http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Meyer.p...
- biot 15y ago"But if your files are generally much larger or tend to grow over time..." No numbers are given in what you quoted, but when I think about "much larger" I'm thinking of file sizes in the megabyte to gigabyte range, such as a dedicated data drive for a media server or a database server. A 4KB median file size doesn't fit my mental model of "much larger".