From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 23 19:59:19 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 B88BB37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6521B43ED8 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 95C415194A; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:29:13 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 14:29:13 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Hari Bhaskaran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs -i and -f options with vinum Message-ID: <20021224035913.GD79700@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021222184113.A6131@spider.netmails.net> <20021223234416.GA49574@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021223214643.A14922@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021223214643.A14922@spider.netmails.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Monday, 23 December 2002 at 21:46:43 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > > 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) ? Yes, my bad. I misread. In this case, it's the default, so you don't need to specify it. > 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. If that reflects the average size of your files, that's fine. 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