Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:04:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Bruce Petro <bpetro@usa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Compare FBSD File System Message-ID: <20000914140402.A5897@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <380327008.968949972194.JavaMail.root@web302-mc.mail.com>; from "Bruce Petro" on Thu Sep 14 12:46:12 GMT 2000 References: <380327008.968949972194.JavaMail.root@web302-mc.mail.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 14), Bruce Petro said: > Could someone shoot back a brief review of how the FBSD file system > compares to the old FAT system? General information is fine, but > please also cover: > > 1. Efficient Disk Usage - any min file size etc like fat? ffs has an 8k blocksize and a 1k fragment size. Small files and the ends of large files are put into fragments. > 2. Any disk compression advisable or even needed? With 20-gig IDE drives selling for under $100, my guess is that disk compression is not something to even think about anymore. > 3. Any disk size limits? I believe I've seen some say there are > limits in the size disk you can use, but others seemed to reply > and say that that was old limits. There are always limits; I think the filesystem code has a 1TB filesystem-size limit, and you should be able to put a single 1TB file in that filesystem without any problems. > 4. Other than speed, any difference in how FBSD works with ATA -vs- > SCSI (eg: size limits differences) Nope. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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