Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:35:42 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: UFS2 now the default creation type on 5.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <16017.1051101342@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:28:09 -0300." <3EA686D9.50808@tcoip.com.br>
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In message <3EA686D9.50808@tcoip.com.br>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >Terry Lambert wrote: >> "Wilkinson,Alex" wrote: >> >>>Thanks for that. >>> >>>Do you know if UFS2 dynamically allocates inodes ? >> >> >> No; it gets them from the prereserved inodes area that is > >? > >AFAIK, it *does* dynamically allocate inodes. No it does not. Inodes are preallocated, but it dynamincally initializes them. This mainly means that newfs(8) runs much faster. -- 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.
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