Clemens Eisserer wrote:
Well, it sounds a bit like a microsoft manager explaining why XP-Home
has no terminal server features ;-)
I think an mkfs-option would be best, with a warning if the value
given by the user is nonsence (3-8% ok?).
Is there a reason we need to specify this at mkfs time? What about a
mount option?
It seems that if you could do this in the kernel source, you could
certainly do it at mount-time, per-fs. In other words, it seems that
it's not something which needs to be specified in the FS format itself.
This is a bit arrogant, but I believe that a user that does not know how
to recompile the kernel with the #define changed is not sophisticated
enough to know how much he is going to hurt his performance by going
from 95% to 99% space used, and a user who does not want to bother with
recompiling is not going to study the topic enough to realize he is
making a mistake 80% of the time. It is important to know when
designing a product when your users intuitions are going to be wrong
80%of the time, and while one should always be slow to reach such a
conclusion, I think this is such a case.
And yet, there are still plenty of options in the kernel, in mount
options and in menuconfig, which are dangerous and almost never right.
