From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 9 06:47:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C890F106564A for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:47:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E6D28FC13 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:47:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n596lhps004621; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:47:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n596lgvR004618; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:47:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:47:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Kelly Jones In-Reply-To: <26face530906081813x5abd6d28i27137b76b0be41c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <26face530906081813x5abd6d28i27137b76b0be41c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:47:50 -0000 > What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in > replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure? > > Is UFS2 no longer considered the "best" general-use filesystem? at least for be it's the best. High performance, minimal hardware resource usage, perfect recovery from failures. > using 862 cylinder groups of 118.88MB, 7608 blks, 60864 inodes. > > I realize I can use "f 512 -b 4096" to get 200M+ inodes, but I'm yes do newfs -i 512 -b 4096 -f 512 -U /dev/disk you may add -O1, for simple reason. It will create UFS1 filesystem, which won't be slower in case of small files (it will be with very large), but one inode takes 128, not 256 bytes, which will make huge difference !!! use -m 0 or -m as probably you control it yourself what's put here, and extra fragmentation or mostly-full FS won't exist with really small files. just fsck will take a lot of time, you may try gjournal or simply accept it, as FreeBSD don't crash often :)