Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:53:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 Message-ID: <200112101853.fBAIraq47919@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200111271953.fARJrFc88452@freefall.freebsd.org> <3C10F171.FEE996EB@FreeBSD.org> <200112101846.fBAIkee47815@apollo.backplane.com> <20011210105019.A12150@iguana.aciri.org>
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:On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:46:40AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> :This is very questionable topic, at least from the space efficience
:> :POV. For example, I found that on my development system using 16:2
:...
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:is it compulsory that fragments are 1/8 of a block, or you could
:have a different ratio ?
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: cheers
: luigi
You can theoretically use other ratios but only 8:1 is well-known
and well-tested. Other ratios (4:1) have been reported to be unstable..
i.e. there are probably bugs in the filesystem (or buffer cache) code
related to those ratios.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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