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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:23:03 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>
Cc:        Max Clark <max.clark@media.net>
Subject:   Re: 20TB Storage System
Message-ID:  <20030903132303.GA53246@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20030903110615.GA25233@chuggalug.clues.com>
References:  <20030902224136.GA98381@dan.emsphone.com> <ILENIMHFIPIBHJLCDEHKGENGDCAA.max.clark@media.net> <20030903110615.GA25233@chuggalug.clues.com>

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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:06:15AM +0000, Geoff Buckingham wrote:
> However I just read the newfs man page and am intrigued to know what effect
> the -g and -h options have....
> 
>      -g avgfilesize
>              The expected average file size for the file system.
> 
>      -h avgfpdir
>              The expected average number of files per directory on the file
>              system.

I believe these are used by the dirpref stuff to decide how to distribute
files and directories evenly throughout the dis.

	David.



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