On 2009-10-26 at 21:12:56 [+0800], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > * One inode covers a whole block, and it only embeds attribute data > into that block (could do the same with file data). I'd rather get rid of the inode concept completely and pack the file system object meta data (and small data) densely. ReiserFS 3 performance shows that this is a good idea. This also removes the main reason for not increasing the block size dramatically. CU, Ingo