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Date:      Sat, 3 Apr 1999 22:20:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/10927: Bug in UFS/FFS: time / space optimization on large partitions
Message-ID:  <199904040620.WAA65473@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/10927; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: bde@zeta.org.au, oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/10927: Bug in UFS/FFS: time / space optimization on large partitions
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 16:18:25 +1000

 >So the PR can be closed, of course.  Sorry for the confusion.
 >I was probably confused by the description in newfs(8), but the
 >description in tunefs(8) is more clear.
 
 newfs(8) only describes the initial setting of the flag.  I think
 the initial setting of -o space will get undone on the first allocation
 unless minfree is 0, since there aren't many fragments to begin with.
 
 >By the way, what would be better filesystem parameters, in
 >order to have optimization for time, as long as possible?
 
 Perhaps you want no fragments.  I use a fragment size equal to the
 block size (4K) on some partitions in an attempt to increase efficiency
 by increasing contiguity.
 
 Bruce
 


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