From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 3 2:15:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB45737B4C5 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:15:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eA3AEpV45562; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:14:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200011031014.eA3AEpV45562@earth.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Randell Jesup , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep References: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> This is a matter of preference (hence the reference to paint) and also the :> use intended for the system in question. However, the code is not going to :> be significantly more complex due to this, and I think it's a much better, :> ie cleaner, way of doing it. : :One question that probably interests many of us is, can tuning those :numbers reduce fsck time? Is fsck time strictly proportional to disk :size, or does the number of inodes and/or cylinder groups affect it? : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org Yes. Increasing the number of bytes per inode will reduce the number of inodes and thus reduce fsck time. Increasing the number of cylinders in a group will localize inodes into bigger chunks, reducing seeking and also thus reduce fsck time. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message