Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:30:30 -0500 From: "Michael G." <mikegoe@ibm.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Size Message-ID: <199901100635.GAA14846@out4.ibm.net>
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Yes, this is exactly what I was asking. Thanks! Michael G. On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:25:54 -0500 (EST), Alfred Perlstein wrote: >What he's asking about is if FreeBSD has the same lame problems >like DOS (which it does NOT) where if your partition is > x blocks >then the minimum block allocation increases. In MS-DOG systems >eventually the minimum block size becomes 64k and since DOG doesn't >allow for FFS 'frags' you tend to waste quite a bit of space. > >Anyway in FreeBSD generally the block size is 8k no matter how large >the partition, however this IS tuneable depending on what >characteristics you desire. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICQ #24517082 Live FreeBSD...Or Die! PIC X 10 VALUE "YES! COBOL" ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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