From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 15 14:27:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBD837B403; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9FLR7H00272; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Matt Dillon Cc: Cyrille Lefevre , Ollivier Robert , Peter Wemm , "David O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c In-Reply-To: <200110152126.f9FLQE956721@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oddly enough, I think we're actually in agreeent. On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I was thinking more in regards to the partition bewing newfs'd, not so > much the size of the drive containing the partition. There are a lot > of standard partitions that typically run less then a gig... '/', for > example. Not that I think it matters a great deal. I don't think > people would really notice any significant loss of disk space if we > just changed the newfs default to 16K/2K for everything, at least for > real hard drives. The 1-gig test would also help with newfs'ing > non-hard drives like solid state storage, small mfs partitions > (as peter brought up), and so forth. I think it's reasonable. > > -Matt > : > : > :There is a substantial amount of drives out there stil that are < 1GB. > :Also, consider floppy && SANdisk types of devices. > : > : > :On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > :... > :> is this 1GB limit really accurate ? > :> do you know any todays drives lower than 4GB ? > :> > :> Cyrille. > :> -- > :> Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message