From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 12:14:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3B937B42C for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.255.97.103]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000914191417.BMEK26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:14:17 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8EJEVk09260; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:14:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:14:30 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Dan Nelson Cc: Bruce Petro , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compare FBSD File System Message-ID: <20000914201430.G2261@parish> References: <380327008.968949972194.JavaMail.root@web302-mc.mail.com> <20000914140402.A5897@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000914140402.A5897@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:04:02PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:04:02PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. > See http://parish/FAQ/install.html#AEN972 for details of filesystem limits (read the question after that one for instructions on how to put a 1TB file on a floppy :) ) > > 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 -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message