From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 27 23:29:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C28414D37 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA19748 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:29:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id IAA31187 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:29:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D667114D37 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA19241; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:28:38 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:28:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storing small files in inodes In-Reply-To: <99Oct28.160257est.40335@border.alcanet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 1999-Oct-28 15:48:39 +1000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > >Can we start thinking about fat inodes too? > > I personally think they're fat enough as it is - by default they > occupy about 3% of the disk (though I generally only create about > 1/2 the default number). Doubling the size of the inode would > probably be reasonable if some of the space was available for > storing small files. > > I presume you're thinking of additional space to store ACLs. Given > that ACL's are optional, vary widely in side and can reasonably be > shared, I'd prefer to see them stored outside the inode. Not really ACLs. I'm thinking of head and tail residency for terabyte datasets (for HSM applications). This was discussed extensively in NetBSD a few months ago. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message