Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@ns2.freenix.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110151426580.99882-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <200110152126.f9FLQE956721@earth.backplane.com>
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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
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