From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 3 2:28:58 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 605C737B4FE for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:28:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA38922; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:28:42 +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: Matt Dillon Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Randell Jesup , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep References: <200011031014.eA3AEpV45562@earth.backplane.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 03 Nov 2000 11:28:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: Matt Dillon's message of "Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:14:51 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 11 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 Matt Dillon writes: > Yes. Increasing the number of bytes per inode will reduce the number > of inodes and thus reduce fsck time. Increasing the number of cylinders > in a group will localize inodes into bigger chunks, reducing seeking > and also thus reduce fsck time. That was what I hoped - thanks! 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