Agent641@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 4 days agoDid you check inside the box?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square75linkfedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down122
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minus-squareheartSagan5@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoAnd it gets more complicated when we get to the metadata and filesystem structure. So, you technically never get to store 931GB, I wonder what the (average) ratio of metadata to data is? 3:1?
minus-squarebacon_pdp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoDepends on the file system. If you are using FAT-8; it is 256:1 if you are on ZFS it is as low as 1:4. It also depends on composition of the data stored. If it is Linux ISOs; it is 4GB:64KB. If it is old C source code; it is 512B:4KB on ext4
And it gets more complicated when we get to the metadata and filesystem structure. So, you technically never get to store 931GB, I wonder what the (average) ratio of metadata to data is? 3:1?
Depends on the file system. If you are using FAT-8; it is 256:1 if you are on ZFS it is as low as 1:4.
It also depends on composition of the data stored. If it is Linux ISOs; it is 4GB:64KB. If it is old C source code; it is 512B:4KB on ext4