From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 23 2:57: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5678C14BEC for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 02:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0542C1937; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:57:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F8C4A1B; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:57:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:57:15 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Joe Greco Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non-standard FFS parameters In-Reply-To: <199911230601.AAA04318@aurora.sol.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Joe Greco wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > :> > > > :> Adjusting the bytes-per-inode (-i) specification in newfs should not > > > :> pose a problem. > > > : > > > :IOW now you say it's ok to use very high values of -i... ;-) > > > : > > > :Andrzej Bialecki > > > > > > No, I didn't say that. My recommended maximum is still 262144. Fsck > > > should be reasonably fast with that number and the filesystem should > > > still be able to maintain reasonable efficiency. > > > > Ok, I can live with that, I guess. Thanks a lot for your help! > > What's the recommended way to reduce the number of cylinder groups a bit? ...except manually changing the calculations in newfs/mkfs.c ? What values are reasonable for large filesystems? Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message