From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 1: 5:31 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 01:05:29 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F5037B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 01:05:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB795NL59717; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:05:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: A G F Keahan , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimal UFS parameters In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:56:10 PST." <20001207005610.M16205@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:05:23 +0100 Message-ID: <59715.976179923@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001207005610.M16205@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >> So far I don't see any indication here (or elsewhere) that anybody >> has that grasp. >> >> I guess that is really a testimony to FFS/UFS's qualites... >> >> The main thing is that you significantly reduce your fsck time if >> you reduce the number of inodes. > >Oh, your tunables just reduce the number of inodes? That may come >as a suprise to people that are using the larger disks to store >images and web/ftp stuff. No they don't, I mainly reduce the number of cylinder-groups. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message