From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 7:24: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E89837B491 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 07:23:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14Qsv4-000OAD-00; Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:23:38 +0000 To: Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: minfree: Which is wrong: newfs(8) or tunefs(8) ? Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 15:23:38 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.25.251 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I worked for a company once whose *only* technical documentation was a line for each program that said: "Documentation: Refer to source for more info" :) > Regarding minfree in FFS: > > tunefs(8) says: > > threshold. Settings of 5% and less force space optimization to > always be used which will greatly increase the overhead for file > writes. Note that if the value is raised above the current usage > > newfs(8) says: > > mize the space fragmentation on the disk. If the value of min- > free (see above) is less than 8%, the default is to optimize for > space; if the value of minfree is greater than or equal to 8%, > the default is to optimize for time. See tunefs(8) for more de- > tails on how to set this option. > > So do we have to set minfree below 5% or 8% in order that space > optimization is used always? > > Thanks, > > -Andre > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message