From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 21 13:29:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA14891 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:29:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA14878 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:29:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA17989; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:29:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA23286; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:57:37 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:57:37 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jgrosch@sirius.com Subject: Re: ffs on ZIP drive (fwd) References: <199701210901.BAA08351@superior.truenorth.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Ollivier Robert on Jan 21, 1997 19:54:43 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ollivier Robert wrote: > 8% of the file system size is reserved for root usage and while > "1024-blocks" includes these 8%, "Avail" doesn't. Well, ``reserved for root non-usage'' would be a more correct term. If you reduce this, performance will drastically drop if the filesystem fills up. The space reserve allows for an automatic layout optimization. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)