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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by Dylan16807 on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:06PM (#20670513)
Page/block size is not inode size. While filesystems very often work in chunks of 4KB, the normal inode size is 256 bytes on ext filesystems and 1KB on NTFS. They get packed together.
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