Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:41:22 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lowering minfree to 1% on large disks Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960331163931.29121L-100000@zap.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199603312126.OAA11913@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> If you do this, it will cause the FS mode to toggle constantly.
According to the tunefs(8) man page, setting minfree to 5% or less
will force space optimization "to always be used". I assume this
means even when there is more than 5% free.
> Are you prepared to write a defragmenter? No one has written one
> yet because they didn't need one -- they didn't try tuning their
> reserve down to 1% or 2%. If you do, you'll need one.
IOW, just buy more disk. ;-)
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
System and Network Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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