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From: stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: mkfs question
Summary: mkfs inode allocation wrong?
Keywords: mkfs bugs
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Date: 11 Mar 90 21:01:53 GMT
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The 1.5.x mkfs seems to allocate fewer inodes than will fit on a block.
For example on a 256K fs there are 3 inode blocks with 1K each.  Thirty-two
inodes will fit on one block, but only 93 get allocated instead of 96.
With a 5 megabyte fs there is about half a block wasted.  The inode bit
map size does not seem to be the problem since there is 8192 bits on a block.

Is there some reason for not filling out the inode block at the end completely?


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