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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:03:08 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large Filesystem Woes
Message-ID:  <xzp7jzysvqr.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040111005308.GD60996@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> (Peter Jeremy's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2004 11:53:08 %2B1100")
References:  <20040109193551.GD39751@moo.sysabend.org> <20040110225509.GA60996@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <xzpr7y7s7wl.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040111005308.GD60996@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
> - A statement "these options are no longer necessary and will be
>   be removed in a future release" in the newfs(8)-equivalent man
>   page should read more like "these options are essential" (this
>   relates to dimensioning metadata allocation based on the expected
>   total number of files).  The default values hit undocumented
>   metadata extent count limits at about 500,000 files.  The table
>   showing suggested dimensioning guidelines only goes to 800,000 files.

Ugh.  That's practically useless.  And they actually charge money for
this product?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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