From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Oct 5 4: 8:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAECD37B502; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 04:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id NAA85220; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:08:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13381; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:08:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:08:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Robert Watson Cc: Alex Povolotsky , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Specialised storage system? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [...snip...] You might also want to change the indirection scheme somewhat for a mail server, to gain another two direct blocks while losing the double and triple indirect blocks. This depends on whether the users are expected to send gargantuan mails, however. You might hack the mail program to deposit the larger files on another volume, backed by FFS. Also, you'd probably want to back the central directory to a raw device to avoid indirection. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message