Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:34:24 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs parameters for a 500 GB volume ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304031132360.22089-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3E8C094B.6030503@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Thank you for your reply. I have reread the manpage and would go for: > - blocksize => 64 kB > - fragsize => 64/8 => 8 kB > - bytes/inode => 16 kB > > Are these values reasonable or should i use higher values (because the > disk is so large?) I'd turn bytes per inode up to 200k or so - there's a paragraph in "man 7 tuning" on this. If the application is critical then benchmarking "real use" as closely as possible will enable you to find optimal sizes for stripes, and is probably time well spent. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ User interface? I hardly know 'er!
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