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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:45:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@ns2.freenix.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c
Message-ID:  <200110151945.f9FJj4D27624@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011015130353.B25715@ns2.freenix.org>

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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Peter Wemm:
> > Personally, I'm worried about using 16k/2k on anything less than a large (say
> > larger than 1G) file system.
> 
> Well, all my machines use 16k/2k for all filesystems now and I've never got
> any problem with that. It wastes a bit more space since fragments are now
> twice as big but that's about it.
> 
> > If we made the defaults adjust to the fs size, I think that would be nice.
> > (ie: default to max -c possible, and switch to 16k/2k for "big" fs's)
> 
> Like 8k/1k for <1GB and 16k/2k for >1GB ? Can be done I think. I'll have a
> look at that but bde has probably already written that patch years ago :-)

is this 1GB limit really accurate ?
do you know any todays drives lower than 4GB ?

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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