From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Oct 10 20:04:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03755 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03750 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from quisqueya.natserv.com (TC4-dial-177-142.oldslip.inch.com [207.240.142.177]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA22392; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 23:04:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810110304.XAA22392@federation.addy.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981011122446.P3369@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 23:04:35 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: francisco@natserv.com From: Francisco Reyes To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Optimizing space utilization Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11-Oct-98 Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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. > Interesting. At 262 bytes per inode, I'd only expect a saving of > about 12 MB. Something else I noticed.. The total space reported by df (heading 1K-blocks) also went up slightly. Don't recall exact number, but I think it was 3 to 5MB. ---- francisco@natserv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message