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Date:      Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:29:13 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newfs -i and -f options with vinum
Message-ID:  <20021224035913.GD79700@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021223214643.A14922@spider.netmails.net>
References:  <20021222184113.A6131@spider.netmails.net> <20021223234416.GA49574@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021223214643.A14922@spider.netmails.net>

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On Monday, 23 December 2002 at 21:46:43 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:14:16AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> information in the disk label is not binding.  I'd strongly advise
>> against a 2048 byte block size, though; it buys you nothing in
>> comparison with a 4096 byte block size, but it can result in
>> marginally reduced performance.  In general, unless you have a very
>> good reason, stick to the default 16k/2k block and frag sizes.
>
> Isn't block size (-b) different from bytes-per-inode (-i) ?

Yes, my bad.  I misread.  In this case, it's the default, so you don't
need to specify it.

> Or am I confused?. BTW, after doing some google-ing, I settled for
> newfs -v -i 4096 (only for the partition where I saved mails) Others
> use newfs -v with the default settings.

If that reflects the average size of your files, that's fine.

Greg
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