> Am 02.08.2023 um 13:42 schrieb Olaf Weiser <olaf.weiser at de.ibm.com>: > > Hallo Peter, > > [1] [...] having a smaller inode size than the subblock size means there's a big wastage on disk usage, with no performance benefit to doing so[...] > in short - yes 😉 > The expectation that there is a waste in space seems to come from the idea that inodes are stored as individual files - which then can’t be smaller than a subblock. Referring to: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/digitale-perspektive/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/04-SSSD20-SpectrumScale-Konzepte-Teil2-032020.pdf 04-SSSD20-SpectrumScale-Konzepte-Teil2-032020 PDF-Dokument · 1,2 MB Slide 21: „Held in one invisible inode file…“ -> I would understand from that that 2kiB inodes are just ligned up in a single file and worst case you lose 2kiB because you don’t completely match your 4kiB inodes Jan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20230802/d18caa0e/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Vorschau.png Type: image/png Size: 193197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20230802/d18caa0e/attachment.png>
