On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:52:39AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:03:54AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > > > > I suggested that to ad in private email earlier. UFS1 is still good for > > > > small file systems because it has less overhead. > > > > > > Is the possible overhead noticeable on the modern CPU? > > > If not, it's okay to change default per port basis > > > because users can still change it to UFS1 manually. > > > > It is not about CPU, it is about disk space usage. Inodes are twice the > > size and that sums up depending on the file system size. > > Then, is it matter for modern GB HDD? ;-p
Yes, as the default settings for big filesystems are still lots of inodes. E.g. for /home, I got 10 million inodes. An additional 128 Bytes per inode sums up. This scales with the size of the filesystem... Joerg
