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Date:      Thu, 07 Dec 2000 09:12:30 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        A G F Keahan <ak@freenet.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Optimal UFS parameters 
Message-ID:  <58936.976176750@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Dec 2000 05:52:31 %2B0200." <3A2F097F.15D592DD@freenet.co.uk> 

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In message <3A2F097F.15D592DD@freenet.co.uk>, A G F Keahan writes:
>What parameters should I choose for a large (say, 60 or 80Gb)
>filesystem?   I remember a while ago someone (phk?) conducted a survey,
>but nothing seems to have come of it.  In the meantime, the capacity of
>an average hard drive has increased tenfold, and the defaults have
>become even less reasonable.
>
>What's the current consensus of opinion?
>
>newfs -b ????? -f ????? -c ?????

Right now I tend to use:

	-b 16384 -f 4096 -c 159

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