From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 16 13:57:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04761 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04620; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:55:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18292; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:55:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd018152; Wed Sep 16 13:55:16 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA25689; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:54:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809162054.NAA25689@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:54:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, mike@smith.net.au, joelh@gnu.org, tlambert@primenet.com, tom@uniserve.com, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, irc@cooltime.simplenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809160724.AAA00684@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 16, 98 00:24:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > According to Kirk, 16 to 32 is the right number of cylinder groups, > > all over 50 is waste. we can end up with 200+ cgs on modern disks :-( > > Yay, even less locality of reference. You were paying attention to the > thread on inode allocation policies that went past just recently? I was. You were intentionally creating a large directory tree depth first. The correct answer _is not_ to muck up allocation policies. The correct answer _is_ to create the directory tree breadth-first. Whether this means you use the tool that BSD intends you use (mtree), or whether you reorder the contents of the archive, is really irrelevent. The point is we know *what* to do, and it doesn't matter *how* it gets done. > > >There's no such thing as "true geometry" anymore. > > > > Well, there is, but we'd like to avoid having to deal with it. > > Gawd, and the pedants out from the voodvork came. Pedants are why the Internet operates at all... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message