Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better
by dspillett on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:44PM
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> They are all rounded up to 512 or 4096 bytes by your filesystem.
Not always. Some filesystems allow small files to be compacted into other structures: the MTF can hold small in NTFS, ext* and btrfs support similar inlining of data in inodes for small files, other filesystems (ZFS, Reiser, btrfs again) support more general sub-block allocation (with techniques such as tail packing or block sub-division). Sometimes this is only for small files not “oddly” sized larger files, but things like tail packing can apply to the latter too.
Not always. Some filesystems allow small files to be compacted into other structures: the MTF can hold small in NTFS, ext* and btrfs support similar inlining of data in inodes for small files, other filesystems (ZFS, Reiser, btrfs again) support more general sub-block allocation (with techniques such as tail packing or block sub-division). Sometimes this is only for small files not “oddly” sized larger files, but things like tail packing can apply to the latter too.