:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A G F Keahan writes:
:>What parameters should I choose for a large (say, 60 or 80Gb)
:>filesystem? I remember a while ago someone (phk?) conducted a survey,
:>but nothing seems to have come of it. In the meantime, the capacity of
:>an average hard drive has increased tenfold, and the defaults have
:>become even less reasonable.
:>
:>What's the current consensus of opinion?
:>
:>newfs -b ????? -f ????? -c ?????
:
:Right now I tend to use:
:
: -b 16384 -f 4096 -c 159
:
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:Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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I think Bruce swears by 4K (page-sized) fragments. Not a bad
way to go. I use 2K because I (and others) put in so much hard work
to fix all the little niggling bugs in the VM system related to partial
page validation and, damn it, I intend to use those features!
-Matt
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