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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:33:10 +0200
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Organization: Vega International Capital
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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8
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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 18:42:25 +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
> > I would suggest to extend this para explaining that 16:2 could result
> > in a huge space wastage when there are large number of small files on
> > the fs (such as /usr/ports or /usr/src) and 8:1 is better suited for
> > such cases.
> 
> Thanks for the input.  I'll include this in my upcoming change to make
> 16:2 the default as discussed with mckusick and dillon on -arch.

Please do, because I was really surprised to find out that some 300MB
out of 1.15GB (~ 30%!!!) was just a wasted space, which I've reclaimed
by switching back to the good old 8K/1K.

-Maxim

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