<font size=2 face="sans-serif">OKAY, I'll say it again. inodes are
PACKED into a single inode file. So a 4KB inode takes 4KB, REGARDLESS
of metadata blocksize. There is no wasted space.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">(Of course if you have metadata replication
= 2, then yes, double that. And yes, there overhead for indirect
blocks (indices), allocation maps, etc, etc.)</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>And your choice is not just 512 or 4096. Maybe 1KB or 2KB is a good
choice for your data distribution, to optimize packing of data and/or directories
into inodes...</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hmmm... I don't know why the doc leaves
out 2048, perhaps a typo...</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mmcrfs x2K -i 2048</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">[root@n2 charts]# mmlsfs x2K -i</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">flag
value
description</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">------------------- ------------------------
-----------------------------------</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> -i
2048
Inode size in bytes</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Works for me!</font><BR>