Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:05:07 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@yahoo-inc.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c Message-ID: <20011016180406.M7373-100000@delplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <4661.1003218509@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3BCB629A.ACF72517@yahoo-inc.com>, Doug Barton writes: > > > > What do you guys think of the attached patch? If this is such an > >important issue, it should be documented. I for one am glad I saw this > >discussion, because I'm looking at creating a custom file system for > >about 300,000 files that are 400k or smaller. I'm looking to improve > >file I/O performance, so I thought a smaller frag size might get things > >packed in tighter... > > Bad idea. > > If !8:1 b:f ratios doesn't work it should be PR'ed and fixed, not > canonified in a man-page. It would be OK in the FUD section of the man page :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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