<font size=2 face="sans-serif">inode size will be a crucial choice in
the scenario you describe.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Consider the conflict: A large inode
can hold a complete file or a complete directory.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">But the bigger the inode size, the less
that fit in any given block size -- so when you have to read several inodes
... more IO, less likely that inodes you want are in the same block.</font><br><br><BR>