From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 7 18:30:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711DB37B419 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:30:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.130.204.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.130.204] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16CXFW-0007bR-00; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 18:29:59 -0800 Message-ID: <3C117B2E.233D704D@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 18:30:06 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk McKusick Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems References: <200112071913.fB7JCvf29494@beastie.mckusick.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk McKusick wrote: > On balance, I do not see either of these as strong enough reasons > to special case `small' filsystems though I would not object if > you choose to do so. FYA, we had this same debate a bit over a > decade ago when we changed the default from 4K/512 to 8K/1K. > Obviously, we decided not to special case small filesystems > then despite great hand-wringing over what would happen... The problem now is that people are trying to redefine "small" as large enough that this is going to bite someone... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message