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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:24:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with understand file system performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990812102303.1833A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990812133648.A64754@keltia.freenix.fr>

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On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> According to Poul-Henning Kamp:
> > Yes.  The minimum directory size is the fragsize of the filesystem,
> 
> I'm afraid it is not the case...
> 
> 214 [13:35] root@tara:/src# df .
> Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s2d    1375362   602742   662592    48%    /src
> 215 [13:35] root@tara:/src# dumpfs /dev/rda0s2d|more
> magic   11954   time    Thu Aug 12 13:34:13 1999
> id      [ 360d5f59 20984fb4 ]
> cylgrp  dynamic inodes  4.4BSD
> nbfree  68880   ndir    22396   nifree  217288  nffree  29178
> ncg     44      ncyl    694     size    1419379 blocks  1375362
> bsize   8192    shift   13      mask    0xffffe000
> fsize   1024    shift   10      mask    0xfffffc00
>         ^^^^
> 216 [13:35] root@tara:/src# ll
> total 5
> drwxr-xr-x   2 roberto  staff   512 Sep 26  1998 CVS/
>                                 ^^^
The fsize is the number of bytes in a fragment.  Even if your file is 1
byte, that file needs 1024 bytes to store.  However, the byte count is
still one byte.  In your example, the byte count is 512 bytes.

-Zhihui



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