On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:31:06AM -0500, nixlists wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> 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?
You might save a tiny bit when creating or deleting files and dirs.
But other than that and fsck_ffs, no.
-Otto
