Re: inode size question

From: <jlewis@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 22:47:37 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 30 May 1999, Jorg B. wrote:

> When formating the drives which will be used as the cache drives for squid,
> what is the preferred inode size ?
> By default Linux's mke2fs command defaults to 4096 bytes per inode.
> Since squid caches a lot of small files (html files, jpg's etc.) is it right to
> assume that 1024 bytes per inode is a much better choice ?

Probably not. Lots of the objects squid caches aren't that small. On a
local squid box, with around 8gb of cache and the default 4kb/inode, I
have 88% block usage with 51% inode usage. You could probably get away
with 5 or 6 kb/inode.

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