Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:17:15 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: A G F Keahan <ak@freenet.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimal UFS parameters Message-ID: <20001207001715.I16205@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <58936.976176750@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:12:30AM %2B0100 References: <3A2F097F.15D592DD@freenet.co.uk> <58936.976176750@critter>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [001207 00:12] wrote: > In message <3A2F097F.15D592DD@freenet.co.uk>, A G F Keahan writes: > >What parameters should I choose for a large (say, 60 or 80Gb) > >filesystem? I remember a while ago someone (phk?) conducted a survey, > >but nothing seems to have come of it. In the meantime, the capacity of > >an average hard drive has increased tenfold, and the defaults have > >become even less reasonable. > > > >What's the current consensus of opinion? > > > >newfs -b ????? -f ????? -c ????? > > Right now I tend to use: > > -b 16384 -f 4096 -c 159 I know you're pretty busy, but any chance of getting this into sysinstall? Maybe hindged on the size of the partition? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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