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Date:      Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:44:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?q?Claus=20Guttesen?= <cguttesen@yahoo.dk>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Reserved space (WAS: How to calculate bsdlabel size)
Message-ID:  <20040206084458.53207.qmail@web14101.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040206072244.GT908@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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>> But it's not my problem. What you mean results in
>> limited available space,
>> but doesn't have any influence on Size summary.
>> Btw I did a newfs with -m 0
>> so it can't be the reaseon.
> 
> This is strongly non-recommended.  The UFS
> algorithms are designed on
> the assumption that there are always free blocks. 
> When you get below
> 5-10% free space, the performance will degrade
> significantly and you
> will start getting file fragmentation.
> 

Does the algorithm(s) rely only on percentage of free
space? On a five TB (netto) filesystem eigth percent
is approx. 410 GB which seems quite alot.

regards
Claus


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