New optification issues in extras-testing

[Michael Cronenworth]

Jeff Moe on 12/29/2009 08:20 AM wrote:
> Symlinks take space on disk, too. I'm not sure if they take a whole block or
> a part of it but there is likely a limit where a links costs more space than
> the data itself. Is this where the 2K come from?

An inode on the default file system is only 256 bytes. Ext was optimized 
for small files and fast symlinks.

>
> We also should keep care that we do not run out of inodes (which IMHO should
> not be a problem if we replace the real file with a link because that
> does/should not increase the amount of inodes).

With only 2 gigs of space by default, you are not going to run out of 
inodes.


This discussion should have been long ago prior to Maemo 5's release and 
not now.