Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:55:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), phk@critter.freebsd.dk, joelh@gnu.org, tom@uniserve.com, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, irc@cooltime.simplenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP Message-ID: <199809162155.OAA00540@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:54:51 -0000." <199809162054.NAA25689@usr04.primenet.com>
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> > > 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. This is stupid; you are suggesting we force the application to optimise for the filesystem it's running on? I'd have to compare this with rectal insertion of the cart into the horse. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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