[sfoskett]

I didn't even consider this. Thanks for the explanation! Makes tons of sense!

Incidentally, many modern filesystems (including NTFS) store very small files in the FAT rather than taking up a whole block for this very reason!

[chungy]

cringes at "in the FAT" instead of "MFT"....

ZFS has this same feature, however, as long as feature@embedded_data=enabled ;)

[sfoskett]

I guess I'm an old storage guy. I call it the FAT on everything! :-)

[takeda]

Yeah, different filesystem calls things differently FAT, MFT, inodes.

Best is to just call it metadata :)