4K block size question

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Oct 20 07:21:50 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 15:17 +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> > By writing nodes which don't cover a full 4KiB and hence aren't
> > pristine.
> Thanks.
> 
> By the way, what do you (and other JFFS2 folks) think about very big 
> nodes of size = block size? I'm going to create such a big inode 
> checkpoints. Is it OK? Are there some reasons not to do so and split 
> them into several smaller nodes?

Other than the fact that it doesn't pack well, not really. If they're
that large are they _really_ an effective use of space? 

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dwmw2






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