Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:14:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non-standard FFS parameters Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910080912200.54250-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <199910080501.WAA98482@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> > :> Try using a smaller block size, like 16K. If that doesn't work then just > :> stick with 8K I guess. The kernel's clustering code should still make it > :> reasonably efficient. > : > :Yeah, I guess that's the only way to do it on 3.x... But how can I speed > :up fsck then, since newfs will create millions of inodes I don't need > :which will cause fsck to run for ages... > : > :Andrzej Bialecki > > The problem should only be effected by the blocksize (-b) specification. > > Adjusting the bytes-per-inode (-i) specification in newfs should not > pose a problem. IOW now you say it's ok to use very high values of -i... ;-) Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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