Re: file system shenanigans (was: Re: [PLUG] ELF Init section)

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:24:10PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Would practical file system tuning be an interesting meeting topic?
> Has it already been done?

To my knowledge, it hasn't been done.  Probably the closest thing was
when I talked about ext2 file undeletion.
http://www.PhillyLinux.org/talks.html

> Hrm. So perhaps GNU du does query the fs for what block size it
> likes? BSD du pretty clearly does not.

Historically, SysV and BSD du have displayed their results in differing
sizes.  I *thought* that SysV reported in 512-byte blocks and BSD
reported in 1024-byte blocks, but a look at my OpenBSD machine indicates
its du reports in 512-byte blocks (but includes a -k option), so now I'm
not so sure.

I prefer the -h option on GNU du.

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