From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 16 0:49:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7682F37B405; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 00:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9G7mTa04663; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:48:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Doug Barton Cc: Matt Dillon , Matthew Jacob , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:26:34 PDT." <3BCB629A.ACF72517@yahoo-inc.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:48:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4661.1003218509@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3BCB629A.ACF72517@yahoo-inc.com>, Doug Barton writes: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >--------------452C775F06A8B39928947702 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > What do you guys think of the attached patch? If this is such an >important issue, it should be documented. I for one am glad I saw this >discussion, because I'm looking at creating a custom file system for >about 300,000 files that are 400k or smaller. I'm looking to improve >file I/O performance, so I thought a smaller frag size might get things >packed in tighter... Bad idea. If !8:1 b:f ratios doesn't work it should be PR'ed and fixed, not canonified in a man-page. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message