From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 6 15: 6:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-108.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6310137B42C for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 15:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0BBDF67C7A; Sun, 6 May 2001 15:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 15:06:52 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jan Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs options Message-ID: <20010506150652.F98841@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:10:23PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:10:23PM +0200, Jan Conrad wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I would like to ask whether there is any need to choose newfs options > different from -b 8192 -f 1024 for larger partitions? >=20 > For example, one of our partitions for homedirs (30GB) has an average file > size of 50kB. I guess it's just happy with the defaults. >=20 > However, we have a partition (again 30GB) with an average file size of 5 = MB! > What about that? Search the archives for the -fs and -hackers mailing lists. The rule of thumb I use is to bump -b and -f to 16384 and 2048 (or maybe double again, depending), and use as a high a -c value as it will let me. Kris --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE69cr8Wry0BWjoQKURAieLAKDwHZFONkpxqNlH8dPl/J+bxMf4nwCfYNeV MAg7Zhd2kLQCW8aKSzn3S6E= =k28/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message