It seems that this is the typical Linux value; it allows large files
and so on. But more importantly, it appears that this change turns
the lwext4 library code from taking an hour+ to do a USB stick format on mac
(and maybe other platforms) to taking under 3 minutes.
The underlying reason for this is not clear.
/* We rely on static initialization for these */
static struct ext4_fs fs;
static struct ext4_mkfs_info info;
- info.block_size = 1024;
+ info.block_size = 4096;
info.inode_size = 128;
info.journal = false;