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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:12:46 +0100
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil (again)
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:44:23PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> i think these numbers will be similar to those of fossil.
>
> blksize	files	blocks	mb used
> 16384	35738	1427263	22300
> 8192	35738	2675543	20902
> 4096	35738	7775796	30374
>
> obviously, there are two competing forces at work here.  the amount
> of space wasted off the tail of the last block, and the amount of blocks
> required to map the data into the inode completely.  it seems that for
> my mix of files, 8k is a winner.

Thanks for the data, Erik!
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