From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 23 19:47:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5BC37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:47:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.netmails.net (dsl-65-189-239-65.telocity.com [65.189.239.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E2A943EDC for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:47:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from subscr@spider.netmails.net) Received: (qmail 14934 invoked by uid 1014); 24 Dec 2002 03:46:43 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:46:43 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs -i and -f options with vinum Message-ID: <20021223214643.A14922@spider.netmails.net> References: <20021222184113.A6131@spider.netmails.net> <20021223234416.GA49574@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021223234416.GA49574@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:14:16AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:14:16AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > information in the disk label is not binding. I'd strongly advise > against a 2048 byte block size, though; it buys you nothing in > comparison with a 4096 byte block size, but it can result in > marginally reduced performance. In general, unless you have a very > good reason, stick to the default 16k/2k block and frag sizes. Isn't block size (-b) different from bytes-per-inode (-i) ? Or am I confused?. BTW, after doing some google-ing, I settled for newfs -v -i 4096 (only for the partition where I saved mails) Others use newfs -v with the default settings. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message