Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:12:41 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c label.c options.csysinstall.h Message-ID: <37BF4E89.D3CD53C2@gorean.org> References: <199908051950.MAA13220@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > phk 1999/08/05 12:50:27 PDT > > Modified files: > release/sysinstall install.c label.c options.c sysinstall.h > Log: > Make the newfs parameters a global option. > > The default is still "-b 8192 -f 1024" but my experiments show that > "-b 16384 -f 4096 -c 100" is a more sensible value for modern > disksizes. I'm curious, why is making the block size bigger a better thing? I would think that with disks getting bigger all the time we'd want to decrease the block size to avoid the wastage of unused partial blocks being multiplied over very large disks. This is a legitimate request for info, I'm not an fs expert by any means. Thanks, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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