Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:50:47 -0000 (GMT) From: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimizing space utilization Message-ID: <199810110250.WAA20883@federation.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <19981010153725.T3369@freebie.lemis.com>
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On 10-Oct-98 Greg Lehey wrote: >> If I know how many files I have for a fs I am trying to see if space >> could be saved by using less inodes. > > None. You need exactly one inode per file. I didn't phrase that question properly. What I meant was: if I do a newfs and create less inodes, will I save any space. Today I was able to check. On a 1 Gig partition by using 1/4 the number of inodes (sent -i 16384 to newfs) I was able to save a little over 30MB. A 3% saving. :-) I was still left with over 64K inodes, which I doubt I will use. Thanks for the reference to the paper in /usr/share/doc/...fastfs Also found another paper in the "papers" directory which relates to performance. Those should make good subway reading. :-) ---- francisco@natserv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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