From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 11:54:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF8E37B401 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 11:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-87.apple.com [17.250.248.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1638543F75 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 11:54:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h45IsEIi009835 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 11:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com (dpvc-68-161-244-25.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.244.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h45IjMDY022962 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 11:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:47:07 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Charles Swiger To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B29B06A68@turtle.egar.egartech.com> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Subject: FFS and minfree... X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 18:54:56 -0000 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