From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 3 1:59:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88A037B4D7 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 01:59:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA38781; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:59:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: Matt Dillon , Randell Jesup , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 03 Nov 2000 10:59:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: Marius Bendiksen's message of "Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:14:00 +0100 (CET)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marius Bendiksen writes: > > e.g. there wouldn't be a whole lot of need for a 10G /usr. Once hard > > drives got big enough I just left it at 2G. > > This is a matter of preference (hence the reference to paint) and also the > use intended for the system in question. However, the code is not going to > be significantly more complex due to this, and I think it's a much better, > ie cleaner, way of doing it. One question that probably interests many of us is, can tuning those numbers reduce fsck time? Is fsck time strictly proportional to disk size, or does the number of inodes and/or cylinder groups affect it? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message