I’ve known for a long time that if you delete a file on Unix / Linux but that file is open somewhere, the blocks used by the file aren’t freed until that user closes the file (or is terminated), but I was left wondering about some other edge cases. Shaken Fist has a distributed blob…
Tag: filesystem
Large inodes = faster samba
Ted T’so just mentioned in his LCA 2007 talk that larger inode sizes improves the speed of Samba 4. This is because you can fit more file attributes in the inode. I can’t find a reference to the benchmark results online quickly, but wanted to make a note of this.