[arch-dev-public] current e2fsprogs incompatible with grub

[Jürgen Hötzel]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:32:49PM +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 2008/2/9, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> > Ahh, I did forget that little issue too.
> >
> > If anyone is more informed on FS issues than I, what is the benefit of
> > larger inode sizes?
> >
> 
> Less number of inodes per file?
> 

Aehm, there is only one inode per file. 

XATTRs (like ACLs) can be stored directly in inodes, if the inode size is large
enough. XATTRs stored in inodes will speed up XATTRs access greatly.

Jürgen