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Date:      Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:43:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Vaclav Haisman <V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: journaling fs and large mailbox format
Message-ID:  <20050930213905.M74024@logout.sh.cvut.cz>
In-Reply-To: <433C9E44.8000800@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Doug Barton wrote:

> Alin-Adrian Anton wrote:
>
>> XFS fits incredibly well with Maildir, however this I did not test 
>> practically 
>
> I am curious as to what the defaults are for frag, inode, and block sizes on 
> XFS, and whether that is one of the factors that make it work well with 
> maildir.
>
> Doug

I don't think that frag, inode and block size is the main factor that makes XFS 
work well in many small files situations. From what I have read about XFS I 
gather that it allocates inodes on demand, that it doesn't have fixed amount of 
them.

 	VH



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