From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 20:15:58 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 1679A16A41F for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:15:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-fs@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AC113C46E for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:15:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-fs@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HxqID-0000aZ-5i for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:15:13 +0200 Received: from 78-1-108-42.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.1.108.42]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:15:13 +0200 Received: from ivoras by 78-1-108-42.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:15:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:13:27 +0200 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <20070611161148.GA19299@keira.kiwi-computer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig07DF6E2D9D74F0296333BBEE" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-1-108-42.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Inode density for database machines - newfs -i X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:15:58 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig07DF6E2D9D74F0296333BBEE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Francisco Reyes wrote: > The current machine is using 2056 inodes for 1.2TB.. with 3,539,382 > inodes free. For the next machine I will use a higher number in newfs > until I get the number of free Inodes close to 100K. That will give the= > machine plenty of free inodes. How long fsck takes depends on the number of used inodes, not the total number. Barring a bug in UFS, you should be able to have as little inodes as you want, especially if you know for sure what number to expect= =2E The only thing that might bite you is if the machine is (sometime in the future) reassigned to some other duty that suddely requires a lot of inod= es. --------------enig07DF6E2D9D74F0296333BBEE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGbaztldnAQVacBcgRAjRIAJ90QWDuLUJLJDV8Yse6i+PnMLyopgCcCOZT ctB3kKTmo+QZLa0uAH+CdI8= =T5Md -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig07DF6E2D9D74F0296333BBEE--