Overhead ext3/4?

Question

linux

I searched for a long time on the Internet, and I can not find anything intelligible.
I bought a 1.5 TB hard drive, formatted it in ext4, and ext4 with default settings ate 26 (!) GB. I know about reserving 5% of the space, I turned it off. Empirically, it was found that just a huge number of inodes were created. Formatted with -N 1000000.
Questions:
1) Did I do the right thing?
2) Why is there such a big overhead by default?

Answer 1

1. 2 percent overhead is not so much, it will be worse if you have a lot of free space and no inodes :)
2. The ext4 architecture is outdated long ago, XFS fans constantly criticize ext4 for static inode placement.

ext4 has two advantages:

1. it is relatively simple
2. compatible (if desired, backwards compatible) with ext3

If you miss its features - welcome to XFS and Co.

Answer 2

There was not enough topic on lore? =)