Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:26:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@ns2.freenix.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, "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: <200110152126.f9FLQE956721@earth.backplane.com> References: <20011015124636.I29828-100000@wonky.feral.com>
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I was thinking more in regards to the partition bewing newfs'd, not so
much the size of the drive containing the partition. There are a lot
of standard partitions that typically run less then a gig... '/', for
example. Not that I think it matters a great deal. I don't think
people would really notice any significant loss of disk space if we
just changed the newfs default to 16K/2K for everything, at least for
real hard drives. The 1-gig test would also help with newfs'ing
non-hard drives like solid state storage, small mfs partitions
(as peter brought up), and so forth. I think it's reasonable.
-Matt
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:There is a substantial amount of drives out there stil that are < 1GB.
:Also, consider floppy && SANdisk types of devices.
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:On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
:...
:> is this 1GB limit really accurate ?
:> do you know any todays drives lower than 4GB ?
:>
:> Cyrille.
:> --
:> Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net
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