From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 0:19:28 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 00:19:25 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB58F37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eB78HFF26874; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:17:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:17:15 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: A G F Keahan , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimal UFS parameters Message-ID: <20001207001715.I16205@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3A2F097F.15D592DD@freenet.co.uk> <58936.976176750@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <58936.976176750@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:12:30AM +0100 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Poul-Henning Kamp [001207 00:12] wrote: > 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 I know you're pretty busy, but any chance of getting this into sysinstall? Maybe hindged on the size of the partition? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message