Gentle admins:

Has anyone done any testing to see what the right reserved block
percentage (-m to tune2fs or mke2fs) is?  On the Berkeley Fast
Filesystem the right number was 10%; the ext2/ext3 default is 5% so I
assume that's pretty good for most Linux.  But with so many layers
between Linux and the hardware, is that a good default on zSeries?

I ask because we've just noticed that Levanta left us with filesystems
where -m was 0.  That gives us an interesting time with filesystem
monitoring (if you want an alarm at 90% of capacity, does it trigger
at 90% of the total blocks or 85.5%?), but we're also wondering if we
have any performance-related time bombs.

Thanks for any help!

Ted Rodriguez-Bell
z/VM Systems Programming, zSeries Engineering, Wells Fargo
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