Re: du make check failure on Solaris 5.5 and 5.8 in coreutils-4.5.9

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Buy why 8k and not the current size of 4k?

Sorry, I didn't read your patch before shooting off my mouth.
4k should be plenty.  I said "8k" only so that it'd be more than
plenty.

Typically, inodes are 256 bytes or less.  I think SGI has a filesystem
option where you can have 512-byte inodes.  And one of the early Unix
implementations had fairly-large in-inode files:

   Files of less than 493 bytes are stored directly in the
   corresponding inode.

   -- section 3.1 of: W. A. Felton, G. L. Miller and J. M. Milner,
      "A UNIX System Implementation for System/370",
      AT&T Bell Labs Technical Journal 63, 8, part 2 (October 1984)
      <http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherports/ibm.pdf>.

But I've never heard of inodes larger than 512 bytes.