From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 10 10:53:41 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7687637B416; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:53:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBAIraq47919; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:53:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:53:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112101853.fBAIraq47919@apollo.backplane.com> To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Maxim Sobolev , Sheldon Hearn , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 References: <200111271953.fARJrFc88452@freefall.freebsd.org> <3C10F171.FEE996EB@FreeBSD.org> <200112101846.fBAIkee47815@apollo.backplane.com> <20011210105019.A12150@iguana.aciri.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :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 :... : :is it compulsory that fragments are 1/8 of a block, or you could :have a different ratio ? : : 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message