From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 10 11:02:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00174 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00161 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA07886; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:02:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:02:30 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Karl Pielorz cc: Graeme Tait , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Size In-Reply-To: <3698F24A.EA588E91@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Graeme Tait wrote: > > It's worked fine for me so far. The server with the modified filesystem has not > > yet gone into production, but it hasn't missed a beat. I can't say I've > > stressed the modified filesystem a lot, except for repeatedly tarring, > > untarring and deleting ~700,000 ~1.5k files, which occupy a 3-tier directory > > structure (for reasons of filesystem efficiency). I've tried various > > combinations of > > > > -f 512/1024/2048 > > -b 8*frag size > > -i 1024/2048/4096 > > I'm sure it cropped up in -current / -hackers a while ago... Maybe it's only > 3.0 relevant... I'll see if I can dig up anything... The newfs man page mentions that / has to be 8k/1k or the kernel gets upset. Could that be it? Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message