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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c 
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <3BCB629A.ACF72517@yahoo-inc.com>, Doug Barton writes:
> >
> >	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.

It would be OK in the FUD section of the man page :-).

Bruce


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