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diff --git a/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks.mdwn b/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks.mdwn index c9113d919..7f90f874d 100644 --- a/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/Lots_of_4k_symlinks.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Hi, -this is a minor issue and probably there is no better solution, but nevertheless I would like to point out it and maybe discuss a little about the issue. +this is a minor issue and probably there is no better solution, but nevertheless I would like to point it out and maybe discuss a little about the issue. Given that the symlinks generated by annex are pretty large in size (they point to a file named by a large hash number), ext4 is using an entire block (4K) of storage instead of [embedding the symlink into the inode][inode] itself. For the "archivist use case" of annex, this might lead to tens or hundreds of MBs of disk occupied by symlinks which actually don't add up to more than a few MBs. |