From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 10 08:58:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10869 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 08:58:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10840 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 08:58:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA01121; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:57:01 GMT Message-ID: <3698DBAC.8B7E031F@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:56:12 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graeme Tait CC: Greg Lehey , Dan Busarow , "Michael G." , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Size References: <199901100629.GAA119060@out4.ibm.net> <19990110195247.X8886@freebie.lemis.com> <3698B3EB.502A@webcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graeme Tait wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > I have lots of small (~1000 to ~1800 byte) files in a webserver system. > Following Greg's instructions, I rebuilt the system to have 512 byte > fragments, and more inodes (as there weren't enough with default newfs > setting). However, I restricted this to a special filesystem /usr/www, > partly because the modified settings are less efficient for larger > files, and also to allow mounting this file system async and noatime. > The "async" *greatly* improves speed of file deletion/creation from tar > archives. I'll try soft updates when I move to 3.x . Hmmm.... Doesn't FreeBSD get into trouble if you start deviating from the default 8k/1k for filesystems? (i.e. newfs -b 8192 -f 1024) I know it caused problems a while ago - I also know someone called it 'a bad thing' (at the time) - I'm not sure of the overall outcome though... If it's an 'OK thing' now, that would be quite handy for some of my filesystems as well... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message