Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/13/07 14:06

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> Also, see how much space they take. Unless they're
> each a multiple of 512 bytes, you'll get a lot of wasted space.

Certain filesystems (e.g. ReiserFS and JFS) use block suballocation
allowing multiple files or part-files to share the same block, which
makes the storage of many small files very efficient.

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