[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 31 July 2004 04:00 am, mikehavlicek at netzero.net wrote:

> (BTW I had good luck optimizing the filesystems for small files, which as
> far as know can't be done during a standard install of linux)

How did you do that?  The only thing I can recall that bears on this is during 
the mkfs step of an install having an option to set the number of inodes,  or 
similar.