Timeline for How does ext4 decide number of blocks of a file?
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| May 6, 2016 at 17:16 | vote | accept | TimeString | ||
| May 6, 2016 at 5:59 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | Very small files (depending on the inode size) may end up using no blocks at all; see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197633/… for details. | |
| May 6, 2016 at 1:35 | comment | added | psusi | @Wildcard, simply hard coded. | |
| May 6, 2016 at 1:33 | comment | added | Wildcard |
Are the 512 byte units related in any way to the filesystem or the underlying storage medium, or are they simply hardcoded into stat()?
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| May 6, 2016 at 1:31 | history | answered | psusi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |