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Date:      Mon, 5 May 2003 14:47:07 -0400
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   FFS and minfree...
Message-ID:  <F8ABBBCD-7F29-11D7-8414-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B29B06A68@turtle.egar.egartech.com>

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On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 07:00 AM, Artem Tepponen wrote:
[ ... ]
> Should they be asking 'Why FS design is so flawed
> that it has this requirement' instead?

No.

> Is there any working FS for FreeBSD that does not have this 
> requirement?

The FFS doesn't have a requirement that you reserve any free space, 
although doing so is a reasonable default for most circumstances due to 
the performance advantages.

Do you enjoy having to defragment other filesystem types, by any chance?

-- 
-Chuck



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