From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 22:35:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA07338 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:35:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA07333 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:35:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@ibm.net) Received: from Nikki (slip129-37-208-78.oh.us.ibm.net [129.37.208.78]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA14846 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 06:35:00 GMT Message-Id: <199901100635.GAA14846@out4.ibm.net> From: "Michael G." To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:30:30 -0500 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Size Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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