Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:31:02 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep Message-ID: <4559.973247462@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Nov 2000 11:28:41 %2B0100." <xzphf5pl57q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzphf5pl57q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> writes: >> Yes. Increasing the number of bytes per inode will reduce the number >> of inodes and thus reduce fsck time. Increasing the number of cylinders >> in a group will localize inodes into bigger chunks, reducing seeking >> and also thus reduce fsck time. > >That was what I hoped - thanks! ...and setting your fragment size to 4k has a surprisingly small positive effect on your performance. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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