• heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    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?

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      17 hours ago

      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