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Date:      Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:28:06 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: heavy NFS writes lead to corrup summary in superblock
Message-ID:  <20060609172713.A31718@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200606091451.k59EpQnt039643@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200606091451.k59EpQnt039643@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> > No reason I can think of to use UFS1, but that doesn't mean there isn't a 
> > bug lurking in UFS1.
>
> If he doesn't need UFS2 features, using UFS1 will save some space, because 
> inode data is smaller in UFS1 (128 vs. 256 bytes per inode).  However, that 
> really doesn't matter much if he reduces the inode density as I recommended.
>
> On a 300 GB file system using the default newfs parameters, you have about 
> 36 million inodes.  So using UFS1 will save about 4500 MB of space (vs. 
> UFS2).  However, with an inode density of 2^18 there are only 1 million 
> inodes, so UFS1 makes only a difference of 136 MB.

Ah, I took "A few very large files" to mean "A few very large files that are 
probably too large for UFS1 to represent, as very large is getting very large 
lately" :-).  Switching to UFS1 under those circumstances would be 
problematic.

Robert N M Watson



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