Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:57:15 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non-standard FFS parameters Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911231151430.28436-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <199911230601.AAA04318@aurora.sol.net>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Joe Greco wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > :> > > > :> Adjusting the bytes-per-inode (-i) specification in newfs should not > > > :> pose a problem. > > > : > > > :IOW now you say it's ok to use very high values of -i... ;-) > > > : > > > :Andrzej Bialecki > > > > > > No, I didn't say that. My recommended maximum is still 262144. Fsck > > > should be reasonably fast with that number and the filesystem should > > > still be able to maintain reasonable efficiency. > > > > Ok, I can live with that, I guess. Thanks a lot for your help! > > What's the recommended way to reduce the number of cylinder groups a bit? ...except manually changing the calculations in newfs/mkfs.c ? What values are reasonable for large filesystems? Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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