Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!tahoe!ed From: ed@tahoe.unr.edu (Ed Wishart) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.2bsd Subject: Question re inodes Keywords: inodes, 2bsd, file system Message-ID: <2999@tahoe.unr.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 04:12:36 GMT Reply-To: ed@tahoe.unr.edu (Ed Wishart) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Nevada - Reno Lines: 6 This is not a bug, just a question that I don't know where to post. The 2.10 BSD file system uses 64 byte inodes containing 40 bytes of address space. They use only 21 of these bytes for access to data blocks, 4 of these being direct addresses. Why waste this space when there are addresses left over that could be used to access more direct blocks? My source is the FS(5) manual page.