On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:28:28PM -0500, nixlists wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> What are the recommended newfs tweaks for an FS that will store mostly >> large or very large files? Are defaults sufficient for optimum >> performance, or are they mostly a general case for typical OS small >> program/text files? Also my guess tweaking with tunefs is useless, >> since it's a very old tool? I tried tunefs with larger values than >> default, but that makes the kernel either freeze or panic :D >> >> Thanks. > > It will work with defaults, but you can use -f and -b to increase > fragment and block sizes to a max of 65536. That will save space on > metadata and make fsck_ffs faster and use less memory.
No other performance benefits than fsck?
