[Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1

[Rogier Wolff]

tytso en MIT.EDU wrote:
>    From: Andi Kleen <ak en muc.de>
>    Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:15:13 +0100
> 
>    And much more waste. I recently discovered that a ~5GB 4K ext2 source 
>    code partition has ~480MB wasted in file tails. The same fileset
>    (about 192k files) would only waste ~108MB with 1K blocks.
> 
> It depends on what you're putting in the filesystem.  If it's mostly
> smallish files. such as you might expect on a source partition, then the
> fragmentation overhead is much more of an issue; a 1k block size is
> probably more appropriate.  But if you have a filesystem with really
> large files, then a 4k blocksize is really what you want.  

Note that with a 1k blocksize you're also wasting more on indirect
blocks, block bitmaps etc etc. So some of the "waste" comes back...

				Roger.

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