From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 21:04:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA02533 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02527 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA02911; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:04:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Sean P. Robertson" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newfs In-Reply-To: <325AEF2E.41C67EA6@awod.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Sean P. Robertson wrote: > What are the important options in newfs to make sure the that a disk is > formatted in an optimal manner. I am putting several 3 gig drives in a > news server and want the drives to handle all of the small files > associated with news in an optimal manner. Can anyone give me some > pointers. Up the number of inodes (-i 4096) and check out the INN FAQ before proceeding. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major