>
> My main question is this, when creating the File system, in this example
> /vicepc, what are the best values to set in the following fields in SMIT:
>
> Fragment Size (bytes) 4096 +
> Number of bytes per inode 4096 +
> Allocation Group Size (MBytes) 8 +
If you don't expect to have millions of very small files in the partition
you should set the 'Number of bytes per inode' to a some what higher
value. We use 16384. This will reduce the time needed for a salvage of
the partition because most time during salvage is spent for reading all
the inodes.
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