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PiFS - Store your data in Pi! (github.com)
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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] mattd@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s actually worse than that. It looks like it uses a short to store the index, which is normally 2 bytes. So it takes 2 bytes for every byte stored in the metadata!

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if the index is even guaranteed to fit in a short in every case