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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@ns2.freenix.org>,
	Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>,
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There is a substantial amount of drives out there stil that are < 1GB.
Also, consider floppy && SANdisk types of devices.


On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:

> Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > According to Peter Wemm:
> > > Personally, I'm worried about using 16k/2k on anything less than a large (say
> > > larger than 1G) file system.
> >
> > Well, all my machines use 16k/2k for all filesystems now and I've never got
> > any problem with that. It wastes a bit more space since fragments are now
> > twice as big but that's about it.
> >
> > > If we made the defaults adjust to the fs size, I think that would be nice.
> > > (ie: default to max -c possible, and switch to 16k/2k for "big" fs's)
> >
> > Like 8k/1k for <1GB and 16k/2k for >1GB ? Can be done I think. I'll have a
> > look at that but bde has probably already written that patch years ago :-)
>
> is this 1GB limit really accurate ?
> do you know any todays drives lower than 4GB ?
>
> Cyrille.
> --
> Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net
>


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