Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:30:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@yahoo-inc.com> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c Message-ID: <200110152230.f9FMUUo57520@earth.backplane.com> References: <20011015124636.I29828-100000@wonky.feral.com> <200110152126.f9FLQE956721@earth.backplane.com> <3BCB629A.ACF72517@yahoo-inc.com>
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: :This is a multi-part message in MIME format. :--------------452C775F06A8B39928947702 :Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii :Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit : : What do you guys think of the attached patch? If this is such an :important issue, it should be documented. I for one am glad I saw this :discussion, because I'm looking at creating a custom file system for :about 300,000 files that are 400k or smaller. I'm looking to improve :file I/O performance, so I thought a smaller frag size might get things :packed in tighter... Good idea. -Matt :+++ newfs.8 2001/10/15 22:21:39 :@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ : .It Fl b Ar block-size : The block size of the file system, in bytes. It must be a power of 2. The : default size is 8192 bytes, and the smallest allowable size is 4096 bytes. :+The optimal block:fragment ratio is 8:1. :+Other ratios are possible, but are not recommended, and may produce :+unpredictable results. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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