From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 15 20:10:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA72037B410; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9G3A5M02619; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717A03803; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: clefevre@citeweb.net Cc: Ollivier Robert , Matt Dillon , "David O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c In-Reply-To: <200110151945.f9FJj4D27624@gits.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:10:05 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011016031005.717A03803@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Peter Wemm: > > > Personally, I'm worried about using 16k/2k on anything less than a large (say > > > larger than 1G) file system. > > > > Well, all my machines use 16k/2k for all filesystems now and I've never got > > any problem with that. It wastes a bit more space since fragments are now > > twice as big but that's about it. > > > > > If we made the defaults adjust to the fs size, I think that would be nice . > > > (ie: default to max -c possible, and switch to 16k/2k for "big" fs's) > > > > Like 8k/1k for <1GB and 16k/2k for >1GB ? Can be done I think. I'll have a > > look at that but bde has probably already written that patch years ago :-) > > is this 1GB limit really accurate ? > do you know any todays drives lower than 4GB ? It's nothing to do with "drives". It is a partition thing. eg: a 50Meg root fs or /tmp or something. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message