From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 16:16:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475C416A41F for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:16:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93AC13C47E for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (cxinax@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l1CGGCjO048294; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:16:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id l1CGGBX3048293; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:16:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:16:11 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200702121616.l1CGGBX3048293@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, aronesimi@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <200702121552.l1CFqi6q046650@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-fs User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:16:17 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: comments on newfs raw disk ? Safe ? (7 terabyte array) X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, aronesimi@yahoo.com List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:16:19 -0000 I'm sorry I made a small mistake ... Oliver Fromme wrote: > Arone Silimantia wrote: > > Ok, I will look into this. My data population uses a little less > > than 5 million inodes per TB, so this may be workable to tune. So I > > see the default is '4' - so I could run newfs with: > > The default is 4096 (one inode per 4 KB). The default is 4 * fragsize, and the default fragsize is 2 KB, so the default bytes-per-inode ratio is 8 KB, not 4. (Historically the default UFS fragsize was 1 KB with a blocksize of 8 KB, so the default ratio was indeed 4 KB per inode. But that was changed quite some years ago.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, USt-Id: DE204219783 Any opinions expressed in this message are personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix GmbH & Co KG in any way. FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd With Perl you can manipulate text, interact with programs, talk over networks, drive Web pages, perform arbitrary precision arithmetic, and write programs that look like Snoopy swearing.