Re: wasted disk space

[fog@mixadlive.com (Federico Di Gregorio)]

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Massimo Dal Zotto's letter:
> 
> In my opinion optimizing for space would be a better choice for the root
> partition because it contains a lot of very small files that waste a lot
> of disk space and speed optimization is not very important in this case.

nowdays disk space is cheap. i agree on optimizing for speed (4k) by
default. imho letting the user choose the block-size (make it an
"advanced option") would be very nice. next boot-disks set?

ciao,
federico

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Federico Di Gregorio
MIXAD LIVE System Programmer                           fog@mixadlive.com
Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact        fog@debian.org
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