Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-06-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: No, I don't think there's much point in doing that before Kirk McKusick removes the restrictions on the soft updates code. When that happens, we can make soft updates non-optional and turn on soft updates on all file systems by default. I hope *that* doesn't

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-31 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
jo...@gnu.org (Joel Ray Holveck) writes: As we all know, tunefs -o space will hurt write performance. Will it hurt read performance? If I don't care about install-time speed, but do care about run-time speed and free space, should I populate my filesystems at install time with space

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-29 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 12:03:54AM -0500, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: How do people like to set up their filesystems these days? I've heard of people who like one big fs (not generally usable anymore because of the 1024 cyl limit), others who like the small root fs and one big fs for everything

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Joel Ray Holveck jo...@gnu.org writes: About five minutes ago, I realized that one problem is that I recently installed a new disk, and forgot to enable softupdates on it (doh!). From the little I know, I don't quite understand why softupdates is a tunefs parameter, instead of a mount flag.

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-29 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 29 May 1999 at 0:03, Joel Ray Holveck jo...@gnu.org wrote: [snip] How do people like to set up their filesystems these days? I've heard of people who like one big fs (not generally usable anymore because of the 1024 cyl limit), others who like the small root fs and one big fs for

FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-28 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
You might try unmounting the filesystem and doing tunefs -o space /dev/rawdevice (which can also be done at newfs time). You may find that the performance, especially write performance, isn't too good. I've been looking over FS performance tuning, trying to get my compiles to go a bit

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Feldman
On 29 May 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: You might try unmounting the filesystem and doing tunefs -o space /dev/rawdevice (which can also be done at newfs time). You may find that the performance, especially write performance, isn't too good. I've been looking over FS performance