Randal, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Richard,
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 11:53, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
hudson wrote:
I want to mount with inodes set to 512 because of this:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-November/038143.html
What am I missing?
In the body of the message to which the first link pointed was a URL leading to a page (http://samba.org/~tridge/xattr_results/) that contained several other links. The README link there (http://samba.org/~tridge/xattr_results/README) mentions that larger than default inodes (they mention 512 bytes) allow for extended attributes to be stored within the inode rather than requiring an independent allocation from the file system free block pool.
In the first link
(<http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-November/038143.ht ml>)
it is mentioned that a new Samba ("Samba4"--I take it that's not the current one) will require extended attributes.
So, the original poster wanted to follow the recommendation to use 512-byte inodes, because of the space and speed improvements doing so will provide when using this version of Samba.
Thanks, I looke at all the .png charts, but did not think to look at the README file. Your explanation was quite clear and it all makes sense now. Hope he can figure it out. - Richard