From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 30 13:21:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEDB88F for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:21:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [188.252.31.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32498FC08 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qBUDLQBg003199 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:21:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id qBUDLQaH003196 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:21:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:21:26 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: UFS1 vs UFS2 Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:21:26 +0100 (CET) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:21:29 -0000 OpenBSD by default use UFS1 for partitions smaller than 1TB. FreeBSD use always UFS2. UFS2 uses double the amount of space for inodes. basic operation seems the same. Does it make sense to use UFS1 for small filesystem (on SSD) that would have few millions of files. It will take less space for inodes, but how about performance?